RE: Console on Sourceforge with Cygwin

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

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.

  So, command line options are wonderful for GUI programs *as well as* console
programs.  After all, consider the ever-popular post that goes ...

  "Hi, can anyone tell me what command-line options I can use to get setup.exe
to do a completely unattended installation and choose a selection of
packages?"

  Oops, I just said it.

  *sip*

  <heh>

    cheers,
      DaveK
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