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A comment on Doom as a tool for system administration (1999).

Re:Doom as a tool for system administration (1999) by anthk on Saturday April 23, 2016 @09:35AM (#11555468)
It would be cool to hack frotz + inform6 (now you can as is Artistic 2.0 license based) as an awesome psheudo shell and parser for system commands.

Think natural language for users. Heaven.

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Re:Doom as a tool for system administration (1999) by jameshart on Saturday April 23, 2016 @09:27PM (#11558187)
You are in a directory called 'home'. There are directories to the north, south and west. There are twenty files here. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
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Re:Doom as a tool for system administration (1999) by maaku on Sunday April 24, 2016 @03:14AM (#11558874)
take files
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Re:Doom as a tool for system administration (1999) by itomato on Saturday April 23, 2016 @02:16PM (#11556655)
tell application "Finder" to quit
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