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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 21:25:07 +0200
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: Command-line i/f (Re: PicoBSD) 
Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>,
        Jerry Hicks <jhicks@glenatl.glenayre.com>,
        FreeBSD Small <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG>,
        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
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At 09:37 05-10-98 , Mike Smith wrote:
>> At 23:22 04-10-98 , Mike Smith wrote:
>> >> As such I have a few suggestions already based on IOS/Shiva
SpiderSoftware
>> >> command syntax:
>> >> 
>> >> grouping of commands under another keyword, for example: ip, ipx, dial,
>> etc...
>> >
>> >As long as the syntax is consistent.  IOS is not a good example to 
>> >follow here.
>> 
>> Well it might be a source for command names ;)
>
>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...


Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai <asmodai(at)wxs.nl>
ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises
Network/Security Specialist
    /==|| FreeBSD and picoBSD, the Power to Serve ||==\

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