[AccessD] New Approach

Hi Jim,

Try looking at everything else outside the contents of the CMD.EXE windows.
This is what I'm referring to.

- Hans

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On 4 March 2013 20:14, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I wasn't going to comment but those are just menus assembled using
> power-scripts. Every server-system guy use to build these to speed up their
> production...hardly a GUI more like a simple batch file printing ASCII
> characters to the screen and written in something like Term, EDI, GEdit or
> VI.
>
> Here are some simple samples of how to create menus using advanced-enhanced
> Bash type scripts:
>
> https://code.google.com/p/bashsimplecurses/
>
> Many years ago, I built a series of menus for the PDP11-70 VMS to manage
> tape backups, version control, monitoring volume resources and printing to
> the plotter. Followed that up with building menus so clients could access
> all their application on their PC, built menus so managing a Novell and
> SCO-UNIX networks were faster. If you wanted to get fancy you could also
> assembled them with such power tools as X-Windows, Perl scripts or even use
> the old Lynx command line browser. These were hardly GUIs...just using the
> good old common sense rule to always automate and use what ever tools are
> available.
>
> I hope using these tools did not disqualify me from ever being a expert
> system-network-server administrator and just relocated me to being little
> more than a script-kiddie? ;-)
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Benson
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> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 6:38 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] New Approach
>
> Call that GUI ha ha ha.
>