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Which Text-Based UI Do You Code With?

Posted by Cliff on from the ain't-nothin'-wrong-wit-curses dept.

JHWH asks: "I've been asked to design and implement a management software system with text based user interface as the replacement of an older one running on AS/400. Despite my attempts towards a web UI, the customer is actually willing to have a text based UI. The main reasons are the need for a very low bandwidth and the ability to run on serial terminals. All this in the 21st century! Host systems will be Linux, the language will be C or C++. I already thought about the use of text based browsers like lynx or links. So now I have to wipe the dust away from my ncurses manual, or can Slashdot suggest something more effective?"

6 of 211 comments (clear)

  1. web based with lynx by lpcustom · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just for shits and giggles make it web based and force them to use lynx to interface with it.

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    1. Re:web based with lynx by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oh, come on. Surely you can implement a terminal in JavaScript?

  2. pokey reference by Inmatarian · · Score: 3, Funny

    This should get me modded down and/or knocked unconscious from repeated canings to the face or something.

    Conio!

    Isn't there a linux port of that?

  3. Re:SLANG by ColaMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that post of yours poetry? It almost could be, you know.

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  4. What's wrong with asinine? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Slapping a web server on an embedded system just so you can interface to them is beyond asinine."

    Shhh! Don't tell Brandybuck about this.

  5. Re:SLANG by jbrader · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are like the e e cummings of ./ posts.

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