Re: Kyan Pascal - new insights

[mark@pokey.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning)]

In article <22jfac$hm7@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>,
zcaa1122@rpool9.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Wulf Hofbauer) wrote:
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> Well, I don't like it BECAUSE it is menu-driven. I generally prefer to
> use command line interfaces. Under Apple Pascal, I regularly had to load
> the filer from disk and choose from the menu just to get a disk directory!
> Of course I had to write down the information I needed because the
> screen would be cleared as soon as a program was started. Well, menus
> can be very nice - I really like AppleWorks, for that instance - but
> for programming, they are a pain to use.
> 
> I also don't like the UCSD file system. The requirement for files to
> be contiguous on the disk, the lack of subdirectories, and the quite
> obscure file structures (e.g. the separation of text files into "blocks"
> to work with the editor/compiler) are not to my taste. But I admit this
> might be very subjective.
> 
> - Wulf

Um..... are we talking about the same Kyan Pascal?

My Kyan Pascal uses unix-like statements.  Such as:

cp <from file> <to file>
mv <from file> <to file>

There are no menus that I remember.  There was a menu program which, after
one look, I got rid of - maybe that is what you are talking about.  I've
even written some batch files which, when invoked, do several commands.
An example is my DIR command.  It first clears the screen and then does
an LS -L.

Or are you talking about ANOTHER UCSD OS?
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