But Windows did not kill the command line because it was full of great metaphors.
The Book Sprints project, for example, used the platform to write and produce Introduction to the Command Line in two days.
We're not ones to shy away from the command line, but we took the opportunity to try out something that might have a... broader appeal.
For the techie on your list, try In the Beginning Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson, his extended essay on the relationship between culture and the computer.
Of course the Mac was created in part as sort of a backlash against the command line interface of DOS (typing long strings of complicated computing commands, not pointing and clicking with a mouse like we're used to now), though Mac OS X now boasts a Unix Shell terminal with its own command line interface.
The command-line interface with its forbidding prompt and blinking cursor required mastering a whole catechism of arcane instructions that only a priesthood of computerdom could cherish.
The hacker doesn't even need to be in the same ZIP code to crack a firewall or VPN -- the 3G link lets the Power Pwn take bash command-line instructions through SMS messages and doles out some of its feedback the same way.
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Command establishing the Northern Limit Line (NLL), a demarcation on the Yellow Sea designed to avert clashes at sea.
Carroll didn't even know the military was using the device until the company's tech help line got calls from mobile command centers in Iraq (the screens are sold through dealers).
However, the Czechs were soon back in command and coming closer to a breakthrough, with McGregor gathering on the line after a combination of Hubnik and Gary Caldwell diverted a cross into the six-yard box towards goal.
Tim Davie said he had set up a "clear line of command" in the news division.
The two larger parties have a clear line of command, a leader whose authority is rarely, if ever, questioned by colleagues.
Cloud computing empowered the line of business manager to go around the command-and-control CIO.
Sqlmap, also free and billed as an off-the-shelf, penetration-testing tool, uses a command-line interface and requires a little more programming experience to use.
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Unlike organized-crime cases, where there is no clear line of command between flunkies who commit crimes and the bosses who order them, corporations have an established hierarchy, he said.
Monaghan stretched that lead with as he dummied and twisted his way over the line for Warrington's third try as the home side took command of the game.
The interesting question is going to be whether you can prove a line of direct command.
Just bring up the command (using the ":" key, of course) and type the line number you wish to go to.
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But it might also help convince others in the Taliban's high command that it can no longer simply wait for the Afghan government to collapse once foreign front-line troops go home.
One big change that results from trying to manage a larger organization is a shift from a command and control environment in which the CEO makes key decisions to a delegation of authority to business-line executives.
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