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Date:      Wed, 12 May 2010 12:19:10 -0700
From:      Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: user friendliest gui
Message-ID:  <AANLkTimwcEw-0yhRpwB2-vgxOY2O_5L4Oxh5d4xEraSj@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100512205835.cea80d90.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:58, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:47:24 -0700, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> wrote:
>> No, Denial of Service would be DoS. He's talking about Disk Operating
>> System. Funny, though.
>
> Well, and "Disk Operating System" is a language then? :-)
>
> Okay okay, of course I knew that he was refering to batch
> programming with DOS commands when using "DOS as a language".
> When people mention "DOS", I fist think about DOS/360 and
> afterwards about DOS (as CP/M successor) implementations
> for the PC. Shows how old I am. :-)

We might be of similar ages. :)

> Anyway, a bit of DOS batch programming experience helps
> people intending to write a /bin/sh shell script, and if
> this task is done, a "GUI wrapper", either using text mode
> with dialog, or using Tcl/Tk in X is quite easy.

Absolutely.

Kurt



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