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0 pointsalex_young1mo ago0 comments

I think that’s what we used to call a program. Things like vi and wordstar seem like they’d qualify.

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Yes I agree, something like vi or GNU nano is a great example of a TUI. The meaning is drifting a bit but I think the distinction is useful: a CLI program is one that you can invoke from a Makefile.

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