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[Charles Crawford]

Did you ever use TD in DOS?  That is what I am talking about.

-- charlie Crawford.
At 12:01 PM 5/13/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Charlie,
>Well, I personally like those cryptic commands--each one does a single
>task well.  I hate tabbing through a long list of checkboxes and radio
>buttons (oops, which radio button in the last 15 did I check?)  As for
>quickness Jim, there are a few tasks in that unmentionable series of
>operating systems that are achievable very quickly--but I find most
>tasks very cumbersome on those graphical OS's.  Of course having worked
>on UNIX systems for about 8 years might have somethingto do with my
>attitude.
>
>      Jim Wantz WB0TFK
>On Mon, 13 May 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
> > Charlie:
> >
> > Well, there's absolutely nothing stopping someone from writing
> > such a menuing system!
> >
> > hint hint hint
> >
> > Getting people to use it instead of the command line? Well,
> > that's another story.
> >
> > Here's what I think will happen. Some peopl will chose it because
> > it seems to make life simple. Then they'll want to do something
> > the menus don't support. Then the author gets mail saying "why
> > doesn't your menu ..." Then were are you?
> >
> > Back at the command line?
> >
> > Hopefully. Because the alternative, a fully capable menuing
> > system, is far worse.
> >
> > Just goes to say there's no substitute for learning.
> >
> > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Charles Crawford wrote:
> >
> > > Jim,
> > >
> > >          There is access not far off.  I would like to see a menuing 
> system
> > > for Linix text mode that would reduce the criptic command line having to
> > > remember all those commands and switches.
> > >
> > > -- charlie Crawford.
> > > At 10:12 PM 05/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> > > >Do you think we will ever have access to the gui?
> > > >
> > > >I find that I can access things faster in windows then in Linux text
> > > >mode.  I will admit that linux works much better then windows or the 
> winxp.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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