Sorry Matt, I pushed a sensitive button there! (Or a keyboard key in your case!) :-D Sure, the command line does give you more power but you need to be very familiar with each app in order to benefit from that, whereas with a GUI you don't have to know much about an app in order to control it or set preferences etc. If someone picks an apps that neither of us are familiar with I could probably acomplish a set of tasks in less time using just the GUI. I don't need a command reference manual, just click on named buttons and check out the tool tips.
I digress - I realise the point you're making is if you ARE familiar with the command line syntax of an app you can control it better than with a GUI. Yes, I agree if you're using options that the GUI doesn't provide or isn't optimised to make reasonably accessible (like options inside a window that you have to click on X, Y, Z to access which is bad GUI design - or intentionally sometimes done to keep certain options at arms length from people who don't know what they're doing!) On Jul 28, 1:18 am, Matthew Woodward <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary F wrote: > > Nice simple syntax, I'll give you that, but I left command lines > > behind with AmigaDOS Linotron typsetters. ;-) Apart from the odd > > telnet and tracert these days. > > Not to derail the conversation, but I do get mildly irked when people > imply that GUIs are somehow a notch above the terminal on the > evolutionary scale. In my experience once you know your way around the > command line you can accomplish things much more quickly than with a > GUI, not to mention the tremendous amount more you can do that simply > isn't available via a GUI. > > Anyway, just had to express my opinion on that--there's a really great > command line resource I'd encourage people to check out if they're still > thinking the terminal is somehow "behind" > GUIs:http://en.flossmanuals.net/CommandLineIntro/Introduction > > -- > Matthew Woodward > [email protected]http://www.mattwoodward.com/blog > > Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, > etc. as attachments.http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > smime.p7s > 4KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official site @ http://www.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
