On 1999-06-01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Or Botton> said:
>Only if it has both elements of GUI, such as menus and and selection
>tagging, and the element of CLI which basicly means a fully
>interactive and availble command line, then i'll call it
>a GUI/CLI combination. Because thats what it will be. Both elements
>together. However, if it will be only CLI or only GUI, which are
>still costumisable but without offering any of the other's elements,
>then I wouldnt call it GUI/CLI. I might call it "Comfortable", if
>it will be designed in a comfortable to use way, but I wouldnt
>call it a GUI/CLI since it wouldnt BE a GUI/CLI combination. ;)
In that case, then there's plenty of them available, freeware ones, too.
For DOS (aside from DOSSHELL), there's a small (26k) freeware program called
PC Valet that does quite a bit of what DOSSHELL or Midnight Commander (aka
Norton Commander) for Linux does. I use DOSSHELL for serious work, PC Valet
for fast, small projects. Midnight Commander is great for Linux, but for
quicker action, I prefer the Linux prompt. MC's "mcedit" editor is my
favorite editor under Linux, although I use the default Pico under Pine.
>BTW, while windows is GUI and can call up a DOS window,
>I still wouldnt call it a "good GUI/CLI", simply because the
>interactivity between both of them is not the best. It just
>sums up in you being able to call up Windows programs from the
>DOS window command line. But you cant really do more then that,
>such as give commands to the GUI from the CLI, or give commands
>to the CLI from the GUI. There's no real interface between the two.
Perhaps the combination of too many interactive CLI and GUI elements would
result in an OS that allows too little outside program development. If
that's the case, then maybe a basic CLI interface (with a shell or two for
more GUI-like activity) is the best non-restrictive, open developers'
environment. In that case, flexibility would be more important than
integration for DOS and Linux developers.
Jerry
Internet Montana
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