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Subject: Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software
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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> Well. Consider this. You have a nice shiny GUI and you have 200 new
> student that should be registered in a database. You have gotten a file
> of names and ids etc... So what do you do? Yes you print the file and
> sit and click-i-click for a couple of days to get them all in. Wereas if
> you had a non GUI interface you could easily script it to take 5 min.
> What I'm saying is that a GUI is everything and it is certainly not the
> best interface always.

Agreed, you have an additional CLI tool for scripting purposes.