From owner-freebsd-small Mon Oct 5 15:32:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18252 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:32:51 -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 PAA18234 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:32:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from diabolique ([195.121.59.34]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAA4241; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 00:32:43 +0200 Message-Id: X-Sender: skywise@pop.wxs.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Demo Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:23:20 +0200 To: "Andrew Hannam" From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Subject: RE: Command-line i/f vs WWW i/f Cc: "FreeBSDSmall" , "Andrzej Bialecki" In-Reply-To: <000401bdf065$da48a900$0104010a@andrewh.famzon.com.au> References: Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 15:41 05-10-98 , Andrew Hannam wrote: >> I personally am a big hater of WWW config interfaces... but that's just >> me. IMHO it's useful mostly for marketing hype and (maybe) for people who >> are complete newbies, but for those who want to get the job done it just >> stands in the way... OTOH, perhaps I had just a bad experience - that one >> I tried to use was completely useless, because I could do the same job >> much quicker using command-line i/f with completion... > >I agree they can be bad, and I share your love of the command line. However, >a well designed set of pages can do the job and be much easier to use for >newbie's or those without the time to study manuals. This probably includes >most people and applications for this type of device other than (as they are >sometimes called in my country) "propeller-heads" such as me (and you). True, yet see my other post about the ideas I have a this point about CLI vs WWW. Enough to say that should we have to implement the www pages, we need a very minimal HTTP 1.0 compliant daemon, plus the pages, and that all mounts against the diskspace, then again, giving the complete redesign we might have lying before us of the commands, that would not be a critical point. 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/AwUBNhk4yIY752GnxADpEQImrACg4sKTO15kc0Vs9KidyhFwoqfJFHYAn0+e VaDgv4nxCeaU5yNvrUjQrU6q =2u8k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message