From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!ihldt!ll1!jmr1 Newsgroups: net.works Title: RE: menus and commands Article-I.D.: ll1.115 Posted: Wed Aug 11 09:50:19 1982 Received: Sat Aug 14 03:40:52 1982 The system that you described regarding a menu driven system that allowed the experienced user capability to by-pass the tedious stepping through the menus sounds pretty nice....except...I wonder is it realy worth all the overhead it would cost to make it as flexible as you say. I'm one that belives in menus (what I like to refer to as intelegent menus) to interface to users who should not be expected to understand or learn commands and all thier options (menus are ideal for use in aplication systems), but......they do take-up alot of overhead... My feeling is that if it can be avoided menus should only be used as interfaces to certain complex programs or tasks that require a lot of options. John Reese ATT Long Lines Chicago Special Note: It is a common fact that most programmers are notorious for thier spelling (lack of spelling!)...I am a prime example of this fact....I appologize for my spelling errors, sorry. To those that will (and have already) say that I can use the spell program... I used to use the spell program but I could never find the word in the dictionary once spell told me it was wrong....maybe spell should suggest some allternatives to a miss-spelled word once you have made 15 attempts through spell.