cga2000 wrote: >> >> If God had meant us to use gooey FTP clients, he'd have made our >> fingers out of nacho cheese sauce!! > > Nicely put. >
Definitely not. GUI has its advantages, cli has its core competencies. Both of them should be seen as complementing each other rather than excluding each other. > Must be fun to "drag" .. and er.. "drop" three hundred files that all > start with "cga" .. or whatever .. rather than use a plain old simple > command whose syntax supports wildcards. Sometimes it is not just for fun. If you are tranferring just 2 or 3 files, the possibility of doing "mistakes" with GUI is a lot less than using cli. Besides if you are like me and have 20-30 character long file names, which take atleast 8 tab strokes to complete the filename even while employing wildcards, GUI is definitely the way to go (all that involved is just a left mouse click). I do use command line whenever I think it gets the job done efficiently. However I am not averse to using GUI if it gets the job done efficiently. Efficiency is what matters, not how you get the job done. YMMV. hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]