Text mode toys

John Richard Moser nigelenki at comcast.net
Mon Oct 10 06:58:31 UTC 2005


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seen it.

Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 05:51:15PM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
> 
>>This is just a hypothetical, but what kinds of things can feasibly be
>>done without X?  Most of "Anything" is possible of course but truly to
>>what degree can we take things, just to inspire some thought?
>>
>>Considering that Midnight Commander acts like Norton Total Commander,
>>and that we can do a few other nice things like with MP3Blaster, I'd
>>think that it'd be possible to make a text mode interface similar to the
>>GUI interfaces.  For example, consider the below layout.
>>
>>[... we should totally have some form of window multiplexer for the
>> console dude ...]
> 
> 
> man screen
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel

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