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		michaelhoffman on June 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Poetics of CLI Command Names Is this like PowerShell's `Show-Command` and the earlier Macintosh Programmer's Workbench Commando?

skissane on June 11, 2020 [–]

Yes, same basic concept. Display a fill-in form to guide the user in filling out the command parameters. The main difference is that the OS/400 display a text mode form (5250 block mode terminal form), whereas PowerShell Show-Command and MPW Commando are both GUI tools.

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