system-config-users 1.2.39 broken?
"國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)"
survivor at brisnet.org
Mon Oct 3 19:16:00 UTC 2005
Thanks for the encouragement. Perhaps I just couldn't get over the
incident that happened to me ten years ago. Your right, the command
line is king. I've saved many users with that, even Windoze ones. ;-)
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Actually, executing complicated commands repeatedly is where the
>
>command line wins, especially complicated sequences that no GUI
>programmer anticipated. All you have to do is type the command
>sequence into a file, give it a short name and type the short
>name every time you want to run the script. That is, at the
>shell level, every command you can run from the keyboard is
>automatically the same thing you would execute from a file
>in a script. If there are a few variables between runs, the
>shell provides adequate methods to accept and substitute them
>into the script. GUI's on the other hand often have no scripting
>mechanism at all, so you have to sit and wait and watch for the
>right time to punch the mouse. And when they do offer scripting
>each re-invents it with some new bizarre syntax that doesn't
>interoperate with anything else, while the unix shell has worked
>the same way for 30 years or so. If you are drawing pictures,
>a GUI makes sense. To give commands to a program, it doesn't.
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