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The surprising lack of research into one of the most common forms of human-computer interaction — command line interfaces — is noted, and reasons for this deficiency suggested. The features and inadequacies of existing command line interface design systems and methodologies are discussed. A new grammar-based system for creating commandline interfaces (with integrated facilities for processing initialization files and environment variables) is described.
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Conway, D. (1994). ARGS: Autogenerating documented command line interfaces. In: Blumenthal, B., Gornostaev, J., Unger, C. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. EWHCI 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 876. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58648-2_28
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