CLI-kiddies/advocates ?

news_at_absamail.co.za
Date: 11/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:20:55 -0600

Here's one reason why I'd like to kick these CLI-kiddies
who refuse menues and say they need the extra control.

An importsnt appliation dating back to 1999, which
runs under X and which I used to run under RedHat6.2,
I now need to run on a newer box.

With great pain [waste of time] recently I got X-setup for
Mandrake-9. But the important application doesn't run.
An obvious debugging method is to copy the old RH6.2
installation with the special application to the newer
box, on a separate partition.
The problem is to get RH6.2 -> X setup.
VT is no problem.

Just to rediscover the ID of the 'X-setup' command,
I took one hour guessing, testing logging-notes.
And now 5 minutes later I've forgotten [need to
search notes again], is it called Xconfig, X86setup,
X11config .........dog$hit ...or what ?

My frustration would be somewhat alleviated if I could
kick one [or more] of these CLI-kiddies who say they
don't want menu-driven, like mc, because they need
more control.

And the non-CLI advocates will say that I should
only be using the latest cartoon-based which doesn't
need to know the ID of the X-setup command.
How then do I handle my old applications ?
A main reason for WinTel's success is the respect for
users investment, by allowing old applications to
live on.

== Chris Glur

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