Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 22:35:19 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Jerry Hicks <jhicks@glenatl.glenayre.com>, FreeBSD Small <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Subject: Re: Command-line i/f (Re: PicoBSD) Message-ID: <Version.32.19981004221410.010a4c30@pop.wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199810032345.TAA21910@whizzo.transsys.com> References: <Your message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:39:32 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810040027120.23821-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810040027120.23821-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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At 01:45 04-10-98 , Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
>
>> Again, I fully agree with you - that's also my intention. And I see a
>> Forth -based shell as a means to accomplish it - to glue all these
>> elements together, at the same time giving it flexibility and programming
>> abilities far beyond those of /bin/sh.
>
>I can certainly see how having an extensible shell would be a very
>attractive thing. But if you expect mere mortals to be able to
>run (and extend) the thing, I think a FORTH-based approach is doomed
>to fail (again).
>
>Why wouldn't something based on TCL be a better choice? Sysadmins are
>probably more likely to be familiar with it (perhaps due to experience
>with "expect"). It has a pretty reasonable syntax, and perhaps
>a more familair procedural type model.
Well the whole issue is NOT the language, but the UI and that UI should be
an executable which can alter all the nessecary files (UID of root
nessecary or would that be done by daemoning it?). The goal we have to
reach is providing a usable frontend regardless of which language we use...
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...
Also, will we be using autocompletion of partially typed commands?
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai <asmodai(at)wxs.nl>
ICQ-UIN: 1564317 .:. Ninth Circle Enterprises
Network/Security Specialist
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