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seth AT swoolley.homeip.net (seth AT swoolley.homeip.net) wrote [08.08.05 17:14]:
> Alternative ideas:
> 
> 1) make the lines output really slowly like an old teletype as if it were 
> the 
> good old days, slow enough to read as it outputs.

Ah, the good old days :-D. I'm not sure how many others would actually
enjoy this like I would though :(.

> 2) use ansi colors and bold to highlight the prompts or titles

Have you used/tested the recent installer? We already bold. We weren't
using color thus far to try and keep it uniform for any users who wanted
to do the install on a terminal that didn't support ansi colors (and
possibly keep from garbling their display as well). But bold has been
there for quite some time now ;).

> 3) use a pager like less that actually uses terminal pages (when it exits, 
> it 
> shows you what was there on the screen when it started).

This would present exactly the same problem. Depending on the option
flags passed to less, it will either clear the screen on exiting, or not
clear it, so the same choice would still have to be made.

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Justin "flux" Boffemmyer
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