> > Any other good examples of stuff that is trivial to do at the prompt, but
> > difficult to do "on the desktop"?
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
> Ooooh, hate to tell you this, Fred, but it totally depends on the tools
> you have.
> I offer the following evidence in counter to your example:
> http://www.bears.org/~red/nowhere/FileMerge.app.tiff
I NEVER said that there weren't third party products available.
I ALSO NEVER said that there weren't also tasks that were more suited to
the "desktop" than to the CLI. Those are obvious. The query was for
which tasks would be good examples to show that the CLI was still needed,
or at least still useful, when running Windoze.
Does that program compare two files?
The parts of it that were successful in loading made no mention of file
compare. (It reported an "internal error")
File compare was merely an example that the "desktop" in MICROS~1 OS's
does NOT provide all and every capability that had previously been
provided in the CLI.
Received on Sat Oct 12 2002 - 21:00:01 BST