Boris, Your opinion about textual interface and command line is basicaly wrong. The point is that in the *nix OS , the command line and terminal is just the default input/output devices. When a program/utility/whatever is writen and uses the default io devices it becomes extremly flexible: you can redirect the io, chain utilities with pipes and even (god forbid!) create a GUI for that thing. example: rpm is a command line utility. Now count the GUI's you have for it. the existance of the command line makes it possible to repair a system with a rescue diskette, through a remote access dial up line etc. It makes server accssesible from virtualy any platform. It makes *nix server manageble. GUI only application are restricted to the operations that the programer could foresee and program into them. The most common problem is that the output data is only accessible from the application itself and cannot be piped anywhere. This is very limiting. Unfortunatly GUI users do not realise it untill they have some experience and knowledge with shells and command line. And there is one thing you missed here: the command line and textual based interface does not contradict any GUI operation, but rather give the system its real strength. Dani
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Boris Gorelik wrote: > On Monday 10 December 2001 18:24, you wrote: > > I would like to remind you, that linux is command line OS which based on > > the unix and minix operating systems, knowing the GUI interface without > > the command line interface, is like learning to run, when you dont even > > know how to walk. > It's rather like learning to drive without learning automobile mechanics. > These are different things. I remember my father spending all his off-work > days (late 70-s, ealy 80's in USSR) under the car trying to fix breaks. But > these days are gone (thanks God) and no one seems to regret this. > All the "comand line based" things are like saying: car is engine based and > seats, air condition and radio player are nice add-ins, but if you don't know > how to open an engine and change exhausting valve (I don't know if such a > thing exist :-) ) you cannot enter a car. > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
