Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 22:22:43 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> Cc: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk, James <james@fr.clara.net>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> Subject: Re: Installation Message-ID: <3B1483A3.AAC2A61D@DougBarton.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105291953370.24485-100000@munster.noc.fr.clara.net> <3B13DF5C.E0372DD1@acuson.com> <3.0.6.32.20010529214225.00aa8100@mail85.pair.com>
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"G. Adam Stanislav" wrote:
>
> At 00:02 30-05-2001 +0100, Stuart Duckworth wrote:
> >I'm a newbie, forgive me ... isn't that little grey dialogue with
> >selections that you highlight with the edit keys and select with the
> >spacebar a graphical interface? It's crude, I know, but still
> >graphical.
>
> No, it's not, even if it may seem to be. It is done in textual mode,
> using textual fonts to do the drawing (which, by the way, looks quite
> awful on my system which uses an iso2 font, so instead of box drawing
> lines I see accented characters).
>
> It would only be considered graphical if the software were actually
> drawing the various boxes instead of "typing" them with fonts.
That would make it a graphical display. A graphical user interface is one
where the user interaction with those graphics causes useful things to
happen.
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