I work almost exclusivly from the command line. I *do* like Amber, but for
me its use is limited to its monitoring functions. It's just too fast to
type "set."
What I was mostly referring to here was recovering a dead box after I had
driven 20 miles to a remote POP without having to configure network cards
in a laptop so I could attach to a LAN and run Amber. I keep an ASCII
terminal on the console port of the cisco where I can telnet back to the
UNIX host in the office and run pminstall. Easy, clean, can be done from
literally anything from a PC on a serial cable to some palmtop thingy (I
guess -- do they have serial ports? :) ).
John
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