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[seth AT swoolley.homeip.net]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:52:52PM -0500, David Kowis wrote:
> flux wrote:
> >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 :(.
> 
> I would! That'd be so totally awesome!
> 

We should click the pc speaker (beep command does this) each time a character 
comes up so it seems like a daisy-wheel line printer.

Then it would be usable in a "modern day movie" trying to show off its 
advanced 
technology.

> >
> >>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 ;).
> 
> Colors would be nice.

That's what I was going for.  Also explaining shift-pgup/pgdn for scrolling 
on 
the terminal buffer might help too.

> 
> >
> >>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.
> 
> 
> Typically less doesn't clear it. I don't think clearing it is
> acceptable, as users can type "clear" if they desire. I think that fits
> with our "non interference" policy.

choosing less is interference...

Seth

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