Mark Wonsil <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  > G. (working out appropriate 21st century patent-speak for
>  > "character mode user interface")
>
>Did I not read recently that the Grand Daddy of GUI computers (The Mac) was
>getting a command line interface?

It has always had it and it is called MacsBug :-)

Civilians usually don't even know it exists.  For the rest of us:
http://developer.apple.com/tools/debuggers/MacsBug/index.html

There is also http://www.devdepot.com/description.html?PCODE=SDCON

Well, perhaps not quite a CLI as most people know it, but it IS
possible to interact with the Mac via keystrokes and the RETURN key...


With a grain of CLI salt,

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