text-based

<jargon>

Working under a non-window-based operating system (e.g. MS-DOS) as opposed to a graphical user interface (e.g. Microsoft Windows).

An MS-DOS text-based program uses a screen with a fixed array of 80x25 or 80x40 characters. Examples are WordPerfect before version 5.1 and Microsoft Word.

Last updated: 1995-03-16

Nearby terms:

TeX pointtexttext-basedtext editorText Encoding Initiative

Try this search on Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Google, OneLook.



Loading