Console on Sourceforge with Cygwin

mwoehlke mwoehlke@tibco.com
Wed Aug 30 16:40:00 GMT 2006


Dave Korn wrote:
> On 30 August 2006 16:19, mwoehlke wrote:
>> One Angry User wrote:
>>> On a drizzly Tuesday, the 29th day of August, 2006, Keith Christian's
>>> computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes: 
> 
>>>> Could you provide one example for a user that would start with "Click
>>>> Start/Run and type the following command"
>>> Oh, no, it doesn't work like that.  Command-line options are for wimps who
>>> read manpages!  Console uses menus!  MENUS, man!  Now, there's real
>>> configurability!
>> Sigh.
>>
>> Command line options are wonderful... for console programs. GUI's are
>> for writing apps such that settings can be discovered /without/ having
>> to resort to the doc. I suppose you think Firefox, Thunderbird, IE, etc.
>> need manpages, and should only be configurable via command-line
>> switches? 
> 
>   It's not as orthogonal as all that.  Sometimes a GUI program isn't just a
> GUI program.  Sometimes, even though it has a GUI, all you want to do is
> script it - at which point, you *have* to have command-line options.
> [snip]

No argument :-). I was taking issue with the apparent (and sarcastic) 
disrespect of non-command-line configuration.

Maybe I should have just said:
http://isbn.nu/0671723650 ;-)

-- 
Matthew
Now where did I put my hippo?



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