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TUI short for: Text User Interface or Textual User Interface (and sometimes Terminal User Interface), is a retronym that was coined sometime after the invention of graphical user interfaces, to distinguish them from text based user interfaces. TUIs are different from command-line interfaces in that, like GUIs, they use the entire screen area and do not necessarily provide line-by-line output. However, TUIs only use text and symbols available on a typical text terminal, while GUIs typically use high resolution graphics modes. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 71 KB) Summary Fair use rationale It is impossible to illustrate how a BIOS works without this The use of this screenshot on Wikipedia does not affect the commercial interest of the BIOS manufacture in any way Licensing This is...
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A retronym is a type of neologism coined for an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else, is no longer unique, or is otherwise inappropriate or misleading. ...
“GUI†redirects here. ...
The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ...
A command line interface or CLI is a method of interacting with a computer by giving it lines of textual commands (that is, a sequence of characters) either from keyboard input or from a script. ...
A typical text terminal produces input and displays output and errors A text terminal or often just terminal (sometimes text console) is a serial computer interface for text entry and display. ...
TUI on ANSI-compatible terminals
Snapshot of a TUI used in a BBS system called Synchronet. ANSI standard ANSI X3.64 defines a standard set of escape sequences that can be used to drive terminals to create TUIs (see ANSI escape code.) However, not all terminals follow this standard, and many non-compatible but functionally equivalent sequences exist. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 433 pixelsFull resolution (802 × 434 pixel, file size: 25 KB, MIME type: image/png) Created the image myself, an example of a TUI, Synchronets (BBS software) main menu. ...
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Synchronet is a multiplatform BBS software package, with current ports for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and BSD variants [1]. Past versions also ran on MS-DOS and OS/2, but support for those platforms has been dropped in recent versions. ...
The American National Standards Institute or ANSI (pronounced an-see) is a nonprofit organization that oversees the development of standards for products, services, processes and systems in the United States. ...
The VT100 was a video terminal made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) which became the de facto standard used by terminal emulators. ...
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ANSI escape codes are used to control text formatting and other output options on text terminals that are based on the ANSI X3. ...
TUI under MS-DOS On IBM PCs, the BIOS and MS-DOS system calls provide a way of writing text on the screen, and the ANSI.SYS driver could process standard ANSI escape sequences. However, programmers soon learned that writing data directly to the screen buffer was much faster, as well as being much simpler to program and less error-prone. This change in programming technique resulted in a large number of MS-DOS TUI programs. Some notable programs of this kind were Microsoft Word, MS-DOS Shell, WordPerfect, Norton Commander, Borland Turbo C (which included the conio library), and many others. Most often those programs used blue background for the main screen, with white or yellow characters. Soon mouse input was added, providing additional functionality. Later, the interface became deeply influenced by GUIs, adding pull-down menus and dialog boxes. Image File history File links own screenshot of copyrighted software Taken by: User:Djegan This is a screenshot of copyrighted computer software. ...
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The DOS Shell for MS-DOS 6. ...
IBM PC (IBM 5150) with keyboard and green screen monochrome monitor (IBM 5151), running MS-DOS 5. ...
For other uses, see Bios. ...
Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ...
ANSI.SYS is a device driver in MS-DOS (and related operating systems) that provides extra console functions through ANSI escape codes. ...
Microsoft Word is Microsofts flagship word processing software. ...
The DOS Shell for MS-DOS 6. ...
WordPerfect is a proprietary word processing application. ...
Norton Commander (commonly shortened to NC) is an Orthodox File Manager (OFM) program, written by John Socha and released by Peter Norton Computing (later acquired by the Symantec corporation). ...
Borland Software Corporation is a software company headquartered in Austin, Texas. ...
Turbo C was a Borland Integrated Development Environment and compiler for the C programming language. ...
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Operating a mechanical 1: Pulling the mouse turns the ball. ...
GUI can refer to the following: GUI is short for graphical user interface, a term used to describe a type of interface in computing. ...
A menu is a graphical user interface element which allows the user to select one among several, presumably related, choices. ...
Example of dialog box from Microsoft Windows Dialog boxes are special windows which are used by computer programs or by the operating system to display information to the user, or to get a response if needed. ...
TUI under Win32
The edit.com user interface on current versions of Windows hasn't changed much since its release for MS-DOS 5.0. Microsoft Windows includes Win32 console as an interface for TUI programs. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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The MS-DOS edit interface (version 1. ...
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TUI under Unix-like systems
Snapshot of 'XFdrake', a TUI used in Mandriva Linux to configure the graphical system. In the Unix world, TUIs are often constructed using the terminal control library curses, or ncurses, a mostly compatible library. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Mandriva Linux (formerly Mandrakelinux or Mandrake Linux) is a Linux distribution created by Mandriva (formerly Mandrakesoft). ...
Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ...
Illustration of an application which may use libvorbisfile. ...
Curses is a terminal control library for Unix-like systems, enabling the construction of text user interface (TUI) applications. ...
ncurses is a programming library providing an API, allowing the programmer to write text user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner. ...
The advent of the curses library with Berkeley Unix created a portable and stable API for which to write TUIs. The ability to talk to various text terminal types using the same interfaces led to more widespread use of "visual" Unix programs, which occupied the entire terminal screen instead of using a simple line interface. This can be seen in text editors such as vi, mail clients such as pine or mutt, system management tools such as SMIT or SAM, and web browsers such as lynx. Some applications, such as w3m, as well as older versions of pine and vi use the less-capable termcap library, performing many of the functions associated with curses within the application. BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ...
A typical text terminal produces input and displays output and errors A text terminal or often just terminal (sometimes text console) is a serial computer interface for text entry and display. ...
API and Api redirect here. ...
Notepad is the standard text editor for Microsoft Windows A text editor is a piece of computer software for editing plain text. ...
vi editing a temporary, empty file. ...
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Pine is a powerful freeware text-based e-mail client: the University of Washingtons mail user agent (Email client) its name being an acronym for: Program for Internet News & Email (or PINE Is Nolonger Elm if you so prefer. ...
Mutt is a text-based e-mail client for Unix-like systems. ...
SMIT stands for System Management Interface Tool ...
An example of a Web browser (Mozilla Firefox) A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. ...
Lynx is a text-only web browser for use on cursor-addressable, character cell terminals. ...
w3m with images in an xterm w3m is an open source text-based web browser. ...
Pine is a powerful freeware text-based e-mail client: the University of Washingtons mail user agent (Email client) its name being an acronym for: Program for Internet News & Email (or PINE Is Nolonger Elm if you so prefer. ...
vi editing a temporary, empty file. ...
Termcap is a library and database that enables programs to use display Computer terminals in a terminal-independent manner. ...
Curses is a terminal control library for Unix-like systems, enabling the construction of text user interface (TUI) applications. ...
In addition, the rise in popularity of Linux brought many former MS-DOS users to a Unix-like platform, which has fostered an MS-DOS influence in many TUIs. The program minicom, for example, is modeled after the popular MS-DOS program Telix. Some other TUI programs, such as the Twin desktop, were ported over. This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ...
For the textphone, see Telecommunications device for the deaf. ...
Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
Twin (Text WINdows) is a text-mode windowing environment written and maintained by Massimiliano Ghilardi; it draws and manages text windows on a text-mode display, like X11 does for graphical windows. ...
In computer science, porting is the adaptation of a piece of software so that it will function in a different computing environment to that for which it was originally written. ...
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