On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 08:15:07PM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:

> Beyond the very simplest file-selector GUI programs, I can't envision an
> implementation of UNIX-style pipes. As Wojciech wrote, UNIX uses small,
> carefully defined programs which are linked through pipes. 


Well, I really should not have said pipes alone, because I was thinking
of pipes, shell scripts, etc.  For example attach a filter via a pipe
to the active of listing a directory, or have scripts available
for use.

> >and selecting programs and connecting them with data, etc?
> 
> How would this look to the user?

Apple has done something like this for years with Applescript.

You could give programmers a simple interface to the desktop in
UNIX as well, and do a lot of the same things.

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