Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 21:42:25 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: ITServices@cableinet.co.uk, James <james@fr.clara.net>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> Subject: Re: Installation Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010529214225.00aa8100@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <0f0075600231d51PCOW024M@blueyonder.co.uk> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105291953370.24485-100000@munster.noc.fr.clara.net> <3B13DF5C.E0372DD1@acuson.com>
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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. Adam --- http://phonecowboy.com/registrar/twist/ finds a good domain for you and checks for its existence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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