Re: Q: how do I open xterm, run command, and continue manual input?

From: Alan Connor (xxxxxx_at_xxxx.xxx)
Date: 07/27/03

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    On 26 Jul 2003 19:50:22 -0800, Floyd Davidson <floyd@barrow.com> wrote:
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    >
    > Alan Connor <xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx> wrote:
    >>On 26 Jul 2003 16:59:25 -0800, Floyd Davidson <floyd@barrow.com> wrote:
    >>And I HATE having the screen cluttered with toolbars and icons. I just enter
    >
    > I don't like icons either, and use a "toolbar" that is spartan
    > (FVWM's buttonbar is much more useful than a typical "toolbar").
    > I don't have a "taskbar", because just like icons it would be in
    > the way.
    >
    >>a single letter to bring up a menu with 50 entries, many of them with submenus.
    >>Each of those 50 entries has a *whole line* of explanatory notes, not just a
    >>silly little gif. I can change and add entries in a trice.
    >
    > I believe that your system will work just fine, as long as you
    > never do very many things at once, and only have to manage a
    > relatively simple set of windows.

    You know, Floyd, you just keep inserting these subtle little digs, as

    if you were some high-and-mighty guru and I was some ignorant peasant
    begging for crumbs.

    It's REALLY boring....

     Even then, what you've
    > described is so clumsy that it must be just a huge pain to run
    > anything under X.

    No, and it isn't clumsy and you are getting even MORE boring.

    And that was your last chance. I'm deleting the rest.

    I do things MY way.

    And you are just going to have to live with it.

         
    And people I know who make you look like a newbie run screen in an xterm

    so I KNOW that you are full of *** in this argument.

    REALLY getting the feeling that you are one of these people that just
    won't admit they are wrong EVER.

    That is more than boring, it is OBNOXIOUS

    Alan

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