Re: --interactive mode gone

[Michael Pattrick <mpattrick () rhinovirus org>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:38 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:33:03PM -0800, Fyodor wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 03:36:02PM -0700, David Fifield wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:53:58PM -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone else use --interactive? My guess is that it hasn't worked
> > > for running more than one scan for some time. For those who don't know,
> > > when you use --interactive, you get a little shell like this:
> >
> > You're probably right.  Unless we hear from at least a couple
> > Interactive Mode fans who want it kept, I think we can remove that
> > whole functionality.  Even the Nmap man page says "This option is
> > rarely used".
>
> I removed the --interactive mode in r17131. People hadn't been using it
> since May 2009 at the latest

Probably for the best, tabbed consoles have never been all that rare.

-M
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