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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


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