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Uses and limitations

We have purposely kept guiLiner's operation as generic as possible, so that it may be used with many command line programs. By specifying the options that the program requires and some details about the program itself in an XML file (see below) almost any program should be able to be run though guiLiner.

Some of the most important features of guiLiner are:

There are, however, certain requirements about the command line used by the hosted program that must be met for guiLiner to be able display the options and run correctly. As guiLiner development continues we hope to be able to relax these.


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Nicholas Manoukis 2007-11-14