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From: ynotssor on 16 Nov 2005 00:00 "Richard Steiner" <rsteiner(a)visi.com> wrote in message news:pEreDpHpvCWe092yn(a)visi.com > It's true that old-school *NIX folks seem quite resistent to the idea > of putting anything between the user or administrator and the good old > command line, ... Mostly because they don't want to be limited to the choices offered by the GUI programmer. Redirection and pipes allow complete solution creativity.
From: Longfellow on 16 Nov 2005 02:31 On 2005-11-16, silicono2(a)yahoo.com <silicono2(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > I've had a Unix-using acquaintance tell me that he much preferred > command lines over GUI, even when using Windows. For all the advantages > of GUI I agree that it's much easier to issue a series of commands in a > command line or do something like "copy *.* a:" as well. Can we get the > best of both worlds with an interface using charts/fields of text? The > only example I can think of is BIOS config (also DOSshell a while ago), > obviously it hasn't caught on. > Of course you can argue that a fields/charts interface is in fact a > GUI, with "true" graphics simply replaced by ASCII graphics? > > Seb Like many of us, I've run most everything from JCL machines to palmtops, and have run through all sorts of different presentation fads; green screens to over-the-top Enlightenment eye candy with most everything between at some point or other. I think many of us have settled on something like Fluxbox, perhaps with gkrellm in the slit, some serious slang apps (mutt, slrn), and a raft of GUI terminals stashed all over everywhere doing different things. I can launch the Gimp and run CLI ImageMagick stuff. I can run Audacity and sox on CLI. Mix and match GUI and CLI as appropriate. Best of both/many worlds means choosing what works best, and having the best means having all options at hand. Just a thought... Longfellow
From: Alan Connor on 16 Nov 2005 03:18 On comp.os.linux.misc, in <1132105571.611524.150710(a)g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "silicono2(a)yahoo.com" wrote: <body not downloaded> Good topic. I run Linux from the commandline. No X at all. And none of the other people posting here can say that. Not even Chris. But I don't help people who have so little commitment to the Usenet they can't be bothered to learn to use a real newsreader and don't even include a name in their From header, which indicates a tendency to nymshift. And the address you are using is a throwaway. Besides, you are running Windoze and certainly couldn't follow anything I'd have to say on the subject. So have a day. Somewhere else. You aren't wasting any more of my time, and I type at about a hundred words per minute. AC -- URLs of possible interest in my headers.
From: silicono2 on 16 Nov 2005 09:05 Hey hey hey...! I might not be a UNIX user (yet) but I can follow the gist. And there's no blaming me that my ISP isn't bothering with a news server so I have to use google's simple but underpowered reader. Just because I ask a lot of questions and I'm not expert doesn't mean I'm trolling--if any flame wars ever start it's not my fault. Seb
From: Michael Heiming on 16 Nov 2005 10:27
In comp.os.linux.misc silicono2(a)yahoo.com: > Hey hey hey...! > I might not be a UNIX user (yet) but I can follow the gist. And there's > no blaming me that my ISP isn't bothering with a news server so I have > to use google's simple but underpowered reader. Just because I ask a > lot of questions and I'm not expert doesn't mean I'm trolling--if any > flame wars ever start it's not my fault. Hi! We don't know to whom or in which context you are talking, unless you quote the article probably you are following up to. Please read this before posting anything else: http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google Good luck -- Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94) mail: echo zvpunry(a)urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/' #bofh excuse 153: Big to little endian conversion error |