I think it's because access is via a shell account, so the idea is to have a nice text-based interface. (Possibly Perl::Tk could do this, but it seems like overkill.) | [reply] |
The secret there is ssh -X ;). Nothing like X-forwarding to make things easy.
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Ok, so this is bordering on religion, but there is not always an opportunity to use X (old Windows box, Wyse / Dec terminals, etc). I may be approaching the "old enough not to be trusted" crowd, but after 10+ years of sysadmin, a good command line or curses / screen based interface can be many times less stressful on the machine, network, or other resources.
It all depends on the needs of the application.
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