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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.122825.6993@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:28:25 GMT
- References: <95691@netnews.upenn.edu> <IDF.92Nov2004632@fat-controller.cs.bham.ac.uk> <Bx5Kzr.GBD@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <Bx5pKH.H1F@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Global Village 1
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- twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
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- >In article <Bx5Kzr.GBD@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) writes:
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- >First, I want a command line more powerful than MS-DOS's pale
- >imitation. :-)
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- 4DOS and MKS toolkit.
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- >Second, you've completely missed the point. In order to achieve the
- >power and flexibility of command-line operation within a GUI, you have
- >to create a new window to *give* you a command line. So tell me: why
- >should I use a GUI if all I'm going to use it for is to open up shell
- >windows? GUI simply wimps out when it comes down to brass tacks.
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- It is easier for you, presumabley a knowledgable person, to turn off the GUI
- than it is for a 'stupid' user to turn it on.
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