Thanks for the encouragement. Perhaps I just couldn't get over the incident that happened to me ten years ago. Your right, the command line is king. I've saved many users with that, even Windoze ones. ;-) Les Mikesell wrote: > Actually, executing complicated commands repeatedly is where the > >command line wins, especially complicated sequences that no GUI >programmer anticipated. All you have to do is type the command >sequence into a file, give it a short name and type the short >name every time you want to run the script. That is, at the >shell level, every command you can run from the keyboard is >automatically the same thing you would execute from a file >in a script. If there are a few variables between runs, the >shell provides adequate methods to accept and substitute them >into the script. GUI's on the other hand often have no scripting >mechanism at all, so you have to sit and wait and watch for the >right time to punch the mouse. And when they do offer scripting >each re-invents it with some new bizarre syntax that doesn't >interoperate with anything else, while the unix shell has worked >the same way for 30 years or so. If you are drawing pictures, >a GUI makes sense. To give commands to a program, it doesn't. > > >
