Re: Console on Sourceforge with Cygwin

["Joe Smith" <unknown_kev_cat@hotmail.com>]

"Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote in message 
news:046201c6cc48$80a00480$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM...
> On 30 August 2006 16:19, mwoehlke wrote:
>
>> One Angry User wrote:
>>> On a drizzly Tuesday, the 29th day of August, 2006, Keith Christian's
>>> computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:
>
>>>> Could you provide one example for a user that would start with "Click
>>>> Start/Run and type the following command"
>>>
>>> Oh, no, it doesn't work like that.  Command-line options are for wimps 
>>> who
>>> read manpages!  Console uses menus!  MENUS, man!  Now, there's real
>>> configurability!
>>
>> Sigh.
>>
>> Command line options are wonderful... for console programs. GUI's are
>> for writing apps such that settings can be discovered /without/ having
>> to resort to the doc. I suppose you think Firefox, Thunderbird, IE, etc.
>> need manpages, and should only be configurable via command-line
>> switches?
>
>  It's not as orthogonal as all that.  Sometimes a GUI program isn't just a
> GUI program.  Sometimes, even though it has a GUI, all you want to do is
> script it - at which point, you *have* to have command-line options.
>
No, that is not nessisary for scripting. Applescript works just fine on Mac 
programs
that have no command line arguments. On Windows, COM (aka Active-X) allows
scripting of programs without command line arguments.

I will admit that batch command line scripting (as generally offered by 
shells) is much
easier with command line options, but even then it might not be nessisary in 
some circumstances.