Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 21:00:37 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Jerry Hicks <jhicks@glenatl.glenayre.com>, FreeBSD Small <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Subject: Re: Command-line i/f (Re: PicoBSD) Message-ID: <199810060100.VAA03187@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 21:25:07 %2B0200." <Version.32.19981005210146.010009c0@pop.wxs.nl> References: <Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:06:42 %2B0200." <Version.32.19981005000540.010b11e0@pop.wxs.nl> <Version.32.19981005210146.010009c0@pop.wxs.nl>
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> >Not even that. IOS's command interface is a festering abomination. > >Emulating it would be a major error. > > Want to support yer statement? =) Just curious about the how and why... It's horrible. It suffers from trying to be backwards comptible with ancient code, and being extended into new and wonderful directions. Here's a trick: examine a Cisco router configuration, and try to figure out which configuration lines affect a particular router interface. Outside of the obvious interface commands, you have route-maps, access lists, routing protocol interface subcommends sprinked everywhere. Yes, the context specific command completion is great (and almost necessary given the complexity of the underlying goo), but I wouldn't take a lot more than that. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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