Refinement on Computer Operating Environment

Heh-Tyan Liaw; Biam Chee Low

doi:10.6180/jase.1999.2.4.05

Refinement on Computer Operating Environment

Computer Science and Information Engineering

Heh-Tyan Liaw ¹ and Biam Chee Low This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.²

¹Department of Information Management, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan, R.O.C.
²Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, NanKang, Taipei 115, Taiwan 115, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Received: September 14, 1999
Accepted: January 28, 2000
Publication Date: January 28, 2000

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ABSTRACT

Window user interfaces such as MsWindow improve traditional command-line user interfaces. However, they do not directly support several important functions of command-line user interfaces. In this paper, further refinements for window user interfaces are proposed: (1) monitoring and ulitilizing standard output, (2) speeding up the invokation of general commands, (3) supporting both command arguments and piping capabilities, (4) facilitating online batch processing, and (5) supporting window-style remote control. According to above suggestions, a prototype for refined window user interface has been implemented. It operates in window-style to control remote UNIX platform and integrates FTP functions.

Keywords: Window Desktop, GUI, Human Computer Interface, Remote Control

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