Back in the days of the mainframe and 3270 terminals, all of the commands were pretty much like this. There really was no command line. Rather, it was a screen of fields filled in by the operator and sent wholesale to the system.
Of course it did not end there. Most every Unix system had some kind of, effectively, “curses” based, full screen administration TUI. They were all pretty good for basic and intermediate tasks. I recall doing a lot of disk operations (partition, raid/striping, etc) just following prompts on these things.
Unix System V actually had a rather nice form and menu package you could use from scripts to do your own TUI just like the admin console they shipped.
Anyway, nice project. Just always interesting to watch stuff come around again.
But, also, “What is old is new again”.
Back in the days of the mainframe and 3270 terminals, all of the commands were pretty much like this. There really was no command line. Rather, it was a screen of fields filled in by the operator and sent wholesale to the system.
Of course it did not end there. Most every Unix system had some kind of, effectively, “curses” based, full screen administration TUI. They were all pretty good for basic and intermediate tasks. I recall doing a lot of disk operations (partition, raid/striping, etc) just following prompts on these things.
Unix System V actually had a rather nice form and menu package you could use from scripts to do your own TUI just like the admin console they shipped.
Anyway, nice project. Just always interesting to watch stuff come around again.