n***@absamail.co.za
2005-06-10 16:18:12 UTC
I've never used an apple [except perhaps in 'II' days], but
I suspect they have good Human-Computer-Interface.
Has this been caried over to 'the sys-X' ?
Compared to my regular OS: Oberon S3; linux & Win are lame IMO.
Except for eg. mc [the clone of DOS nc, which designed the HCI] and
eg. Forte's NewsReader [what's it called again?] they have poor HCI.
I had to go to my linux box to get/view some http.
I don't browse [like window shopping with a woman] or surf [like
kiddies going nowhere and just waiting to fall-off]; I have a set
of URL's, of which I want the contents, to read off line.
A script with a sequence of:
lynx -dump '<URL>' > <FileId>
helps to just get the stuff and saves me on-line telco costs.
I like the lynx 'dump' format, of filling the hotlinks with a
sequential number and puting the list of URLs against their
index number at the bottom.
This avoids cluttering the text with URLs.
But in order to read the URL's description and 'pick-off the
appropiate URLs' for next time on line, you need to view
the description and simultaneously the corresponding
URLs, probably several screens down.
Using multiple VTs under linux needs circus acrobatic skill,
and Win & X are equally lame. How would Apple do it ?
Ironically older versions of linux had something like 'splitVT'
which is usefull here. Later linux strives to ape Windowes.
Oberon S3 does it effortlessly: hit the 'Copy' [which every
text-frame/window has] and get down to the corresponding
URL-section [possibly to the exact one, via 'wipe & Search',
which again every Frame has].
I could mention countless other tasks which I need to do and
where linux and Windowes prove so lame. Try this:
from file F1 from the begining of the paragraph where the first
occurence of "fish" is, until the end of the paragraph where the
'next' occurence of "dog" is, move the text to file F2,
to the paragraph after the mention of <some-colour> "cat".
It's difficult to articulate but it's easy to do.
Has Apple got such HCI facilities ?
== Chris Glur.
I suspect they have good Human-Computer-Interface.
Has this been caried over to 'the sys-X' ?
Compared to my regular OS: Oberon S3; linux & Win are lame IMO.
Except for eg. mc [the clone of DOS nc, which designed the HCI] and
eg. Forte's NewsReader [what's it called again?] they have poor HCI.
I had to go to my linux box to get/view some http.
I don't browse [like window shopping with a woman] or surf [like
kiddies going nowhere and just waiting to fall-off]; I have a set
of URL's, of which I want the contents, to read off line.
A script with a sequence of:
lynx -dump '<URL>' > <FileId>
helps to just get the stuff and saves me on-line telco costs.
I like the lynx 'dump' format, of filling the hotlinks with a
sequential number and puting the list of URLs against their
index number at the bottom.
This avoids cluttering the text with URLs.
But in order to read the URL's description and 'pick-off the
appropiate URLs' for next time on line, you need to view
the description and simultaneously the corresponding
URLs, probably several screens down.
Using multiple VTs under linux needs circus acrobatic skill,
and Win & X are equally lame. How would Apple do it ?
Ironically older versions of linux had something like 'splitVT'
which is usefull here. Later linux strives to ape Windowes.
Oberon S3 does it effortlessly: hit the 'Copy' [which every
text-frame/window has] and get down to the corresponding
URL-section [possibly to the exact one, via 'wipe & Search',
which again every Frame has].
I could mention countless other tasks which I need to do and
where linux and Windowes prove so lame. Try this:
from file F1 from the begining of the paragraph where the first
occurence of "fish" is, until the end of the paragraph where the
'next' occurence of "dog" is, move the text to file F2,
to the paragraph after the mention of <some-colour> "cat".
It's difficult to articulate but it's easy to do.
Has Apple got such HCI facilities ?
== Chris Glur.