From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 29 22:22:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C79437B42C for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 22:22:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Received: from DougBarton.net (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA71007; Tue, 29 May 2001 22:22:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Message-ID: <3B1483A3.AAC2A61D@DougBarton.net> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 22:22:43 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk, James , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, David Johnson Subject: Re: Installation References: <3B13DF5C.E0372DD1@acuson.com> <3.0.6.32.20010529214225.00aa8100@mail85.pair.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "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. -- I need someone really bad. Are you really bad? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message