From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 21:14:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E2C15449 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:14:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@futuresouth.com) Received: (from tim@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA20764 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:13:36 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:13:35 -0600 From: Tim Tsai To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <19991214231335.A20661@futuresouth.com> References: <51308.945234648@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <51308.945234648@zippy.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > There's actually one mode you forgot, which is > what I call "text mode", and that's straight ascii prompts, no CUI-style > dialog boxes or anything. You can reprogram the character table and draw fairly nice looking menus in text mode. The last generations of MS-DOS based programs used them to good effect. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message