Russ Hunt posts:


> I wonder increasingly how much my commitment to command line
> operations is really justified, and how much it's hanging on to the
> good old fashioned hard ways when you had to _learn_ something to
> operate a computer . . .


There's also something to be said for supporting alternative ways of doing
things to support people who (a) need special tools to access the internet
and who may have visual or other problems working with graphical interfaces,
and (b) folks using devices such as PDAs.

Dave Phillips