From owner-freebsd-small Tue Oct 6 15:37:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17586 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:37:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17484 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 15:37:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from diabolique ([195.121.58.124]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAF50E; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:37:07 +0200 Message-Id: X-Sender: skywise@pop.wxs.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Demo Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:08:43 +0200 To: Mike Smith From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Subject: Re: Command-line i/f (Re: PicoBSD) Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , Jerry Hicks , FreeBSD Small , Andrzej Bialecki In-Reply-To: <199810052337.QAA00680@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 01:37 06-10-98 , Mike Smith wrote: >> Want to support yer statement? =) Just curious about the how and why... > >The major nits which get me: > > - Inconsistent terminology. > - There's usually at least 2 ways of doing something, and at most one > of those will be like how you would do a similar thing to a slightly > different object. > - No structure (you will usually visit several subsystems in order to > perform any configuration task). > - No scriptability (there's an IOS with Tcl embedded inside Cisco, but > they won't let it out). > >Basically, IOS's command interface is a hack. So then I guess we have to do our utmost attempt as to provide a much, much, much better interface/command set =) All voice opinions please! Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises Network/Security Specialist /==|| FreeBSD and picoBSD, the Power to Serve ||==\ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.0 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBNhqG3IY752GnxADpEQJP0gCfQ/5sc7ZQslIjbjGUWAokiPLvm/kAn2ja pBmlBBFcL27f+/ad0lC8GEpN =2ipW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message