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Best CLI program ever!

• dllthomas 12y ago
  It's not really a CLI. In traditional parlance it's a CUI, though it frequently hosts a CLI...
  • woopdy 12y ago
    What's the 'U'?
    • dllthomas 12y ago
      User, like in GUI. CUI is either "Character User Interface", "Console User Interface", or "Captive User Interface". The first two are mostly orthogonal to "Command Line Interface" (CLI), which can be character based or graphical. The last asserts that the interface fails to play well with the shell, which is nearly always true of GUIs and is frequently true of console programs that make heavy use of ncurses (though not always, and can be true without that).