eww@engr.ucf.edu (Mr. Eric W. Wampner) (02/05/91)
In article <1991Feb2.160133.24350@news.iastate.edu> geff@iastate.edu (Underwood Geoffrey Dale) writes: >Amiga -- > I don't know how the Amiga trashcan works. Would somebody mind >posting an explanation? > <stuff deleted> Pretend this a C switch, and I forgot to use break. Substitute "Cute Black Hole which swirls," for "Ugly Standard Trashcan" Substitute ~/NeXT/.NeXTtrash for dev:Trashcan, only one user! > >NeXT -- > When a file icon is placed in the Black Hole (or Recycler in 2.0), the >Workspace moves the file to ~/.NeXT/.NeXTtrash. For those readers unfamiliar >with UNIX conventions, "~" is the current user's home directory -- one user, >one Black Hole. > Since files are placed in a special directory, it is easy to find out >whether or not files are in the Black Hole. Because of this, almost-deleted >files are kept until explicitly purged. <point of conversation deleted :> Eric Wampner eww@heretic.engr.ucf.edu
cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland) (02/10/91)
>Substitute "Cute Black Hole which swirls," for "Ugly Standard Trashcan" >Substitute ~/NeXT/.NeXTtrash for dev:Trashcan, only one user! > >>NeXT -- >> When a file icon is placed in the Black Hole (or Recycler in 2.0), the >>Workspace moves the file to ~/.NeXT/.NeXTtrash. For those readers unfamiliar >>with UNIX conventions, "~" is the current user's home directory -- one user, >>one Black Hole. These are the luxuries of having a hard drive an obligatory part of the computer system. Machines which have a significant portion of the installed base floppy-bound (e.g., Amiga, Mac, IBM clones, Atari...) would find the NeXT's system impossibly annoying (though it's ideal for a computer in NeXT's situation). Indeed, occasionally Macs demand long-since put away diskettes before they permit shutdown of the system, and that *is* impossibly annoying. Ditto the multiple users/multiple waste directories. Ideal for a Unix multiuser system, silly for a single-user system like the above-mentioned PCs. Does anyone know what Open Look does? (perhaps a businesslike, straightforward DELETE item on the menu for Serious Users who mean DELETE when they say it, dammit!) >Eric Wampner >eww@heretic.engr.ucf.edu Charmed, I'm sure :*) -- // / Thom Cleland / It is easier / // / tcleland@ucsd.edu / to get forgiveness / \X/ / ASOCC * Amiga Users' Group at UCSD / than permission... / \____________________________________\____________________/
peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) (02/11/91)
In article <16516@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland) writes: > Does anyone know what Open Look does? Open Look doesn't *have* a visual shell like Workbench or Finder. Open Look is a *style guide* for X applications. Open Look and Motif both... it's as if there were competing style guides. I'm sure there's some hacker working on the Desert Storm shell, with a variety of missiles and bombs to take out files, directories, and whole partitions with surgical precision and minimal incidental casualties... -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.