Rev as Front End to Command Line

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Apr 9 13:07:00 EDT 2003


Todd Geist wrote:

> I would like to create a UI to a database server that runs on Linux,
> MacOSX and Windows.  All configuration and management is done the
> through the command line.  I am wondering if Rev could be used to build
> a UI that could run all the command lines interpret the responses and
> moves files around on the server. Ideally you could use the app to
> connect to a remote server or one on the same box.
> 
> We currently have an HTML interface that does all this using perl
> scripts.  I would love to build a much more polished interface using
> Rev if it was possible

HTML bites for robust UIs (see
<http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/netapps.html>).

See the shell function for a way to execute command lines.

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