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Subject:Re: Command Line Interfaces From:"Patricia Jackson" <patrj -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 31 May 2000 19:22:52 -0400
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the "command line interface"
described below would come from a Unix script or DOS batch file. A
*command* would be a single word (can be just a couple of characters) with
option flags and parameters and no "interface." For example, the Unix
command to list the files and directories in a directory would look
something like this:
ls -l
where ls is the command to *list* the files and -l is an option flag to list
the long version. In DOS the command would be
dir
Personally, I find commands much more flexible, less time consuming and more
fun than GUI. They're actually very easy once you understand the syntax.
I document both GUI and commands. I don't enjoy the GUI documentation as
much as the command documentation. Somehow it seems more worth writing
about since GUI is somewhat intuitive and I don't like saying or typing
things that seem obvious. Nevertheless some users seem to need it.
