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From: rdd@access4.digex.net (R. D. Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Want a File Manager
Date: 23 May 1996 22:09:36 -0400
Organization: Society for the Obsolescence of Obsolescence
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Message-ID: <4o35p0$lus@access4.digex.net>
References: <4lejtg$m1m@baldrick.trimble.co.nz> <317BE77A.3F54BC7E@FreeBSD.org> <4lhq3h$hcv@golden.pvrr.ru>
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In article <4lhq3h$hcv@golden.pvrr.ru>,
>: Dave Cowl wrote:
>: > I would like a file manager to do simple drag and drop of files to
>: > move the files around. Something like the Sun file manager would
>: > be good.
What I don't understand is why anyone needs such a bletcherous device
when mv works quite well, and is simpler and faster to use than what
is being requested.
Once I was stuck (well, the game (Tai Ching?) that I found on it was
fun, however!) using a Xerox Star running ViewPoint, and how I wish
that there had been a command-line prompt available on that machine,
which would have made working with that machine so much easier!
Hopefully FreeBSD won't ever (d)evolve into a GUI-only system of some
sort.
--
R. D. Davis * http://www.access.digex.net/~rdd * Computer Preservationist
PERQ Logic Systems & Unconventional Computer Consulting
divisions of Transpower Industries, Inc. +1 410 744-4900