Re: Console on Sourceforge with Cygwin

[mwoehlke <mwoehlke at tibco dot com>]

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?