4 Aug
2003
4 Aug
'03
11:09 p.m.
On Sunday 03 Aug 2003 9:26 pm, MJ Ray wrote:
Dan Hatton dan.hatton@btinternet.com wrote:
[...] non-GUI solutions for end user problems, when you ask in ALUG, is that the people answering have a personal preference for command-line/text config solutions [...]
I'm not sure that's the whole story. Other reasons are:
- Easier to explain "comment out line saying foo in file bar" than
"move mouse to this, click that, set foo and click OK" in text email and we don't always have time to lovingly prepare web pages with screenshots for list queries.
And often a text based solution is the only one. There is a perennial problem with PCMCIA config.opts file and Dell laptops which can only be fixed by editing the file (as root).
Ian