console apps

[Janina Sajka]

It's not a question of what the gui adds. Clearly, it adds nothing. 
Rather, it is a question of available resources on the client's computer. 
If they're running ME or 2000, for example, they are necessarily limited 
to the accessibility resources available in their gui screen readers, 
i.e., they don't have a choice. People with 95 or 98 may still have the 
necessary hardware and software to use the PC Console application. But, 
even there, they are increasingly not equipped for that.
 On Mon, 1 Oct 
2001, Kirk Wood wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > ..... And, once installed, it's still only 
> > a PC Console application which won't run any differently than the PC 
> > Console executables in the ssh.com package. At least, the ssh.com package 
> > goes both ways--command line and gui.
> 
> Well, now I have to say that I fail to understand. I mean really, what
> does a gui add to ssh? And along those lines, I will say (quite
> emphatically) that I much prefer the console telnet in WinNT over the gui
> applet in win9x. The console is better hands down every time. The only
> possible benefit I can see to the gui is that you don't have to type in
> the connection info every time.
> 
> Given that you are essentially working at a console in the app, I just
> don't understand why a console app to do this is any big deal. I can
> understand the value of gui with ftp though.
> 
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
> 
> "When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at
> a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."
> 	- President George Bush
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
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