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USENIX Technical Program - Abstract - USENIX Annual
Conference, General Session - June 2000
Outwit: Unix Tool-based Programming Meets the Windows World
Diomidis D. Spinellis, University of the Aegean
Abstract
The ubiquity of Windows-based desktop environments has not been matched
by a corresponding emergence of tools supporting the Unix tool
composition paradigm. Outwit is a suite of tools based on the Unix tool
design principles allowing the processing of Windows application data
with sophisticated data manipulation pipelines. The outwit tools offer
access to the Windows clipboard, the registry, relational databases,
document properties, and shell links. We demonstrate a number of
applications of the outwit tools used in conjuction with existing Unix
commands, and discuss future directions of our work.
"GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions
and impossible to accomplish complex actions." - Doug Gwyn
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