[luau] MSWindows

[Jimen Ching]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, MonMotha wrote:
>> Maybe this (necessity for use of CLI) is the state of the art, but you
>> guys are talking as if we should be resigned to this situation, or even
>> proud of it. I am not convinced.
>
>If the system's sitting at your desk or on your local lan where you can
>export X displays to your heart's content without paying thousands of
>dollars in bandwidth fees to money grubbing telcos, a nice GUI works
>just fine.  However, when you've got a server living in a datacenter
>habitat that's hundreds or even thousands of miles away from you and
>you're paying for every bit you transmit, you'd better be sure you're
>gunna be workign on it from the command line.  Any other method of
>administration is simply uneconomical.

Couldn't a graphical method of executing 'rm -rf' also allow accidental
deletion?  An accident is an accident, no matter what tools you use.
Mechanisms to prevent such accidents can be applied to CLI commands just
as easily as to GUIs.

--jc
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Jimen Ching (WH6BRR)      jching at flex.com     wh6brr at uhm.ampr.org