Brinch hansen - he has written a few books on OS - had a nice design for
this. But I dont recall
the details now.It was specified as details of the book; but this was not as
detailed a help as
Sriram has specified
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sriram Karra" <karra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Suraj Kumar" <suraj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Minutes of the Meeting - 12 Oct 2002
Suraj Kumar <suraj@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:name of
hi,
Sriram Karra wrote on Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 12:37:22PM +0530:
karra>
karra> 1. You are at the shell and you are about to type a command.
karra> 2. You get stuck somewhere because you do not know what is the
karra> the flag that accomplishes your task.
Typically bash_completion can be programmed to do the task that you are
looking for. type the following and see what happens:
[...]
Now is a GUI necessary? (-:
Yes.
where is the help? Where is the explanation for each flag? The bash
completion thing is not a replacement for looking up man pages. The
use of kaptain and my proposed glue code will do just that.
Fundamentally, you are refusing to acknowledge that a cli, by
definition is a uni-directional information passing mechanism - The
user sends commands to the other side and gets back results. Any
hacks to improve it are just that - hacks. A gui, otoh, is by
definition a two way information exchange mechanism. The user reacts
to information already available in the form of pictures, menus etc.
-karra
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