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Date:      Fri, 5 Jul 1996 15:15:31 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, ron@infi.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SysAdmin Tools - ideas wanted
Message-ID:  <199607052215.PAA15685@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199607052159.VAA03846@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Jul 5, 96 03:59:53 pm

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>     Terry> Tcl/tk are OK for the fornt end tool, but not the backend
>     Terry> implementation.
> 
> But it'd be perfect for providing an *interface* to the backend
> implementation.  That's one of Tcl's strongest features: it's easily
> embeddable---and you get a set of nice scripting primitives as a
> bonus.

Keep the scripting away from the tools proper, please.  I don't
want to *have* to run Tcl to administer my system, but I can
understand that other people may want to run it to administer theirs.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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