Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:00:49 04/06/02
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On April 06, 2002 at 07:58:04, Roy Eassa wrote: [snip] >Dann, I had a funny vision: you producing a different 50-page document every >month using Microsoft Word XP -- the CLI version! > >The document would contain style sheets, graphics, a table of contents, an >index, differing column layouts in different sections, tables, outlines, >colors/shadings, footnotes, active links (e.g., URLs), etc. The version of Word >you would use would be entirely CLI, running in a DOS box with no graphics of >any sort. Word's thousands of commands would be completely available to you via >command-line switches and command text files. > >(How many of us would even use Fritz 7 if it had only a CLI? Every feature, >including playing on Playchess.com, would be available but accessible only by >textual commands. I somehow think fewer of us would use it under that >scenario.) Your image is pretty true to form. People are often horrified when I drop to a command prompt and start clicking away like mad at the keyboard. There are some GUI's that I do like. But (for instance) I would never build a GUI for chest just for myself. It would be a complete waste of time, since I would never use it. Other things of similar ilk would be a configuration front end for crafty or things like that. Once I learn what the text form of the commands are, what use would I possibly have for a GUI? Now, with things that have visual value (e.g. pieces moving around on a chess board) I see value in it. Even at that, the first games of computer chess that I played were completely from the command line with no GUI of any sort.
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