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- From: ph@pencom.com (Patrick Hester)
- Subject: ditch that keyboard (was Re: Login Tiff)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.192743.27725@pencom.com>
- Sender: usenet@pencom.com (News system)
- Reply-To: ph@pencom.com
- Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated
- References: <1992Dec23.115338.2267@macc.wisc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:27:43 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1992Dec23.115338.2267@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu
- (Jess Anderson) writes:
- >
- > Well, here I sit, head hung in shame.
- >
- > Spurred on by the news emailed from at least three sources
- > that dwrite loginwindow ImageFile <path_to_file> *does* work,
- > I discover that in each of my previous trials, I must have
- > screwed up, for (tra-la!) it certainly works now. I guess
- > that because the path is really quite long in my case (eight
- > levels down from root, about 70 characters), I must have
- > had a typo that my eye/brain corrected.
- >
- > There's a lesson to be drawn, naturally, from the Zen of
- > computing. :-)
-
- The lesson is to NOT type, but to drag the file's icon from the
- workspace to the shell window. How did I ever get along without
- this feature?
-
- Of course I've been known to cut/paste letters instead of typing...
-
- --
- Patrick Hester ph@pencom.com (212) 513-7777 NeXT Mail OK =8(\/\)
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