Re: [MacPerl] Further qualification on my MacPerl shell project

[Matthew Langford <langfml [at] eng [dot] auburn [dot] edu>]

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Charles Cave wrote:

> I want to clarify what my Macperl shell is trying to do.
> 
> Firstly, I want to write one Macperl script and not install any extra
> software such as FreeBSD.  The shell will be a productivity tool to manage
> files - text and graphics by offering short, easy to use commands to
> rename, delete, move and view files (mostly downloaded from the Internet).

I'm sure many have started and some even completed such a project.  Search
InfoMac or download, and you should be able to come up with some.

But many also find that building a nice collection of drag 'n drop file
filters, a few folder action scripts, and a few AppleScripts does nearly
everything needed for a fraction of the effort.  Add in contextual menu
items which support regexes for selecting and renaming, and the fact that
dropping folders on drag-filters is recursive, and one tends to lose all
motivation.  Especially since the future of MacOS is at heart BSD.


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MattLangford 


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