>Indeed and there are GUI's out there that attempt to bridge the
>gap by showing you what CLI would be run.  Thats now what I'm
>after here since I don't see the GUI as a "teaching tool" I want
>to have it been seen as the one true way for people that want to
>do it that way.

A GUI should run a commandline interface.  If it shows what it does
then that is fine.

A GUI should not do magical things which cannot be done through
a commandline interface.

GUIs do not scale.  And never will.

>I used to think the same until I started using MacOS X.  I'm really 
>impressed at how much stuff you can do from GUI tools and how very 
>little you need to actually bring up a terminal window.  They only times 
>I use a terminal window on MacOS X is to run shell scripts I wrote 
>myself because I haven't drank the AppleScript coolaid yet.

So, how do you do this on 1000 Macs?

Casper
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