From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 14 19: 5:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.aracnet.com (mail4.aracnet.com [205.159.88.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B8D4155EE for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:05:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beattie@aracnet.com) Received: from shell2.aracnet.com (IDENT:1728@shell2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.20]) by mail4.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA24501; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:05:25 -0700 Received: from localhost by shell2.aracnet.com (8.8.7) id TAA19593; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:05:24 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: shell2.aracnet.com: beattie owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:05:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Beattie To: Parag Patel Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Command-line editing [was NetWare client in -current] In-Reply-To: <7895.937349690@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Parag Patel wrote: > Anyway, command-line apps have been obsolete for years, According to whom, Microsoft? I would claim that any functionality that is not fully supported by a command line interface (except, perhaps, for specifically graphical functionality) is not fully supported. As for line-editing in the kernel, let put ISAM and support for record structured files while we are cramming stuff into the kernel. THen we will be that much closer to Multics. Yuck! Brian Beattie | The only problem with beattie@aracnet.com | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message