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BeOS solved this ages ago.

I still think that 'Scot Hacker' (the BeOS Bible guy) is the best geek name I've come across...

No need to quote it, just link to it :-) Actually, I'm not sure if it's the entire chapter from the printed book, but it's pretty close.

Dinivin

http://www.beosbible.com/exc_filetype.html
and here:
http://www.beosbible.com/exc_query.html

The BeOS has solved the problem, years ago. The BFS has integrated all these features into the OS itself, so all applications are making use of them. The Byte.com BeOS articles from Scot Hacker are also a must read!

http://www.beosbible.com/exc_filetype.html
and here:
http://www.beosbible.com/exc_query.html

The BeOS has solved the problem, years ago. The BFS has integrated all these features into the OS itself, so all applications are making use of them. The Byte.com BeOS articles from Scot Hacker are also a must read!

cat somefile > /somepath/window/new

Should open a window with the text of somefile in it...

rm /somepath/window/1

Could close the window with ID of 1.

This reminds me a lot of the program "hey" for BeOS. It's extremely useful for both scripting and interactive use. Sample commands:

$ hey Tracker get Title of Window [0]

(Tracker is the equivalent of the Finder on MacOS). Or maybe something like:

$ hey StyledEdit set Frame of Window 0 to "BRect(107,76,607,476)"

I admit I don't know that much about it, but check out http://www.beosbible.com/bos/ch_scripting6.html

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Hacker isn't just some random writer for byte. He wrote The Beos Bible which has a pretty in depth coverage of the BeOS including descriptions of the internal workings. I think it is naive to say that he is just repeating what he has read elsewhere, because he has had far more contact with the developers of Be than most users have with their OS, open source or not.