From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 30 5:37:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from funbox.demon.co.uk (funbox.demon.co.uk [158.152.85.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B065152D1 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 05:37:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dev.null@funbox.demon.co.uk) Received: from funbox.demon.co.uk, ID 38942CA0-2D5C, Sun, 30 Jan 2000 12:20:48 UTC To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org From: dev.null@funbox.demon.co.uk (do not reply to this address) X-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 12:20:48 +0000 Subject: Re: GUIs are flawed Message-ID: <38942CA0.2D5C@funbox.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 12:20:48 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "naddy" wrote: > Now add a simple > language with basic flow controls and text substitution (sh) and > a dependency evaluator (make). Presto you have a very powerful > toolchest to *automate* tasks. I would include 'expect' in the toolchest; it makes possible some tasks which otherwise would not be worth contemplating. (Or 'expectk', if you want to wrap it all up in a GUI... :-) -- Tim Jackson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ please reply to: t i m . j @ f u n b o x . d e m o n . c o . u k ======================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message