Re: GUI vs: CLI (was: Shell command in VB6)

From: gswork (gswork_at_mailcity.com)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: 31 Mar 2004 08:23:59 -0800

Michael Mendelsohn <keine.Werbung.1300@michael.mendelsohn.de> wrote in message news:<406AA1C2.57CCB292@michael.mendelsohn.de>...
> gswork schrieb:
> > For most common CLI operations i don't feel the need to GUIise them,
> > however, it would be a bit odd to generate a GUI in order to issue
> > 'ls' for instance, but might be handy if i wanted to take advantage of
> > it's many options without 'man ls'
>
> Is it possible to generate the GUI automatically from the man page?
> Given the "standard" way the options are listed, it shouldn't be to
> odifficult to do this at least semiautomatically.

I don't know if it's possible to generate 'on the fly' GUI's for any
app that has a man page, but it sure sounds interesting.

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