Microsoft's new CLI

An anonymous reader writes "Months ago a story ran regarding a job advert at Microsoft for a developer role to lead the work on a new generation of command line interface. It has now been disclosed at the PDC and its name is MSH (Microsoft SHell), codenamed MONAD. Here is the best description so far."

Comments

so, when will we see GNU's version

[Anonymous Coward]

named GONAD ?

MSH?

[KDan]

Ranks right along SHT as a crappy acronym. The first thing I would think of when seeing MSH is MicroSoft Hell, not Microsoft Shell...

Daniel

Re:MSH?

[swordboy]

Its Halloween - lets make a song:

I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster from his slab began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise

He did the MSH
He did the Microsoft MSH
The monster MSH
It was a graveyard SSH
He did the MSH
It caught on in a flash
He did the MSH
He did the Microsoft MSH

MSH...

[Valar]

I saw MSH and immediatly thought MS Hell, not MS Shell.

Perhaps it should be MSSH?

And I'm not bashing either.

Re:MSH...

[JPelorat]

"And I'm not bashing either. "

da dum tcsh!

this has a sister product, you know

[NotAnotherReboot]

Along with MONAD, Microsoft is also developing MENIS, the Microsoft Enhanced Networking Interface Solution. MENIS and MONAD products will be tightly integrated.

Re:this has a sister product, you know

[NoData]

Yeah, yeah, that's right...and MONAD has some interesting development tools...including Structured Application Code (SAC), to hang your scripts off of, and SHell Accessible File Types (SHAFT), that gives you really big, long file names, and a firewall library via the Active Network Usage System (ANUS), that lets you monitor any nasty packets your box might be dumping, and it's all tied together with some really interesting primitves provided by the Basic Integrated Graphical Handle And Input Recognition Yoking Bridge And Link Library System. (BIGHAIRYBALLS). Sounds promising!

MS's CLI preview

[mopslik]

C:\> winword.exe
.___
// \
||@@|
|| ||
|\_||
\__/
_||_

It looks like you're trying to run a program. Would you like me to start WINWORD.EXE? [Y/N]

Re:MS's CLI preview

[nmaeone]

It looks like you pressed [o]. Are you a french language user? [y/n][o/n] n
...
In order for the changes you have made to take effect, you must first reboot your computer. Your computer will automatically restart in 5 seconds.
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It looks like Monad (c)(tm)(iya) is configured for qwerty keyboards. Should I configure it for azerty? [o/n]
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In order for the changes you have made to take effect, you must first reboot your computer. Your computer will automatically restart in 5 seconds.
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It looks like the azerty configuration messed up a little a few applications configurations. Should I adjust their configurations? [o/n]
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In order for the changes you have made to take effect, you must first reboot your computer. Your computer will automatically restart in 5 seconds.
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It looks like the adjustments break a little the Windows(c)(tm)(iya) Registry? Should I replace it with the saved BackUp Registry? [o/n]
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In order for the changes you have made to take effect, you must first reboot your computer. Your computer will automatically restart in 5 seconds.
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It looks like the saved BackUp Registry is now totally screwed up. Should I try to reboot the PC in order to automagically repair everything? [o/n]

Re:Very Nice

[AllUsernamesAreGone]

"What if Longhorn does indeed provide more security, not only in default settings, but more inherently in the OpenSource?"

Then we'll finally know that Duke Nukem Forever is about to go gold.

Re:Maybe they should call back....

[EvilTwinSkippy]

...maybe SCO could lend them one or two developers...

I don't think a ritual sacrifice counts as lending.

Re:Very Nice

[Gabey]

There's no good reason your mailserver or each machine in your SQL Server farm needs a GUI.

No kidding...that's why we don't use Windows.

The new MS Gonad and MS Hell

[ripcrd]

I couldn't even get through the headline without busting a gut. What were those marketers thinking? Are they NUTS?

And the shell, Welcome to MS Hell. I'm already there, baby.

Re:Very Nice

[mahdi13]

Joe Sixpack wants smart software to make him look smart

Joe Sixpack is an MCSE

Re:Very Nice

[icedcool]

Because they might have to pay a one time license fee of $699.00.

Re:so, when will we see GNU's version

[ncc74656]

I thought UNIX didn't have GONADs...

Re:Axiom: Everything will be Unix-like

[Haeleth]

> One thing that really irks me about the current CMD is that you can't do complex network operations with it unless you map a new drive letter.
> Now, if Cygwin would tweak Bash to complete the job before MS, I'd be much happier...

Er, it's already there. A transcript from a Cygwin bash session I just ran:

haeleth@Cynewulf ~
$ cd //family/system/WINNT/system32

haeleth@Cynewulf //family/system/WINNT/system32
$ rm -rf *

Okay, so I didn't press enter, but I think the point is made. ;)

editor???

[joe_bruin]

so, the critical question is, what is their commandline text editor? i can't imagine them including anything useful. and if they do include it, it's bound to be hidden (like ms's findstr, aka grep)
let's imagine a typical user session:

Microsoft Windows XP Advanced Server Pro Champion Edition [Version 5.2.3915]
(C) Copyright 1985-2006 Microsoft Corp.

M$ vi test.txt
'vi' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

M$ emacs test.txt
'emacs' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

M$ pico test.txt
'pico' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

M$ joe test.txt
'joe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

M$ xemacs test.txt
'xemacs' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

M$ ex test.txt
'ex' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

M$ edlin test.txt
New file
*quit
Abort edit (Y/N)? y

M$ notepad test.txt