CompuServe Messages

Could it be that the reason many favor using the CLI over WB is the CLI's very existance? If there were no CLI then any application that needed keyboard parameters would either find them in TOOLTYPES or open a requester for user input. Since the CLI _is_ available, most applications accept command line parameters, but it's the CLI that does the work rather than the application code. So isn't one of the issue's 'HOW TO PASS PARAMS' ? Now if we could figure out how to do it, it would seem more direct to click on an icon…or press a single key…rather than to type: DoItToIT >ram:outfile MyProject -quick -dirty The question is how to provide all that variable information via point and click.