> So does anyone think having an "afs shell" written in Tcl or having
> Perl 5 extensions for AFS would be useful? DCE 1.1 is planning on using Tcl
> for the "dcecp" and it makes a lot of sense over the current jumbled set of
> DCE admin commands. An AFS shell would just combine all the functionality of
> the current commands (fs, kas, etc) into Tcl, so you could actually using
> programming constructs, raise Tcl exceptions on errors, etc.
>
> Roland
We are in the process of developing such a tool using Tcl.
Umich is currently running a large AFS cell with plans to move to a DFS cell
in the future. A Tcl-based admin tool for users will both make it easier for
UFS users moving to AFS and ease some of the migration pains for users when
we upgrade from AFS to DFS.
-Lee
