[Tutor] Finding out if we can use a graphical environment or not

[Lance E Sloan]

--On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 12:18 -0300 Jorge Godoy 
<godoy@metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
>> Will you ever run your programs on a Microsoft platform with DOS
>> prompt but no GUI available? What would that be? A toaster?
>
> Actually, I dunno. Probably not.

Toasters wouldn't run DOS anyway.  Maybe Java, though.  ;)

Seriously, though, the non-GUI version of the program could be run from 
DOS, though unlikely, or from a UNIX or Linux shell.  So I think this is a 
good question.

However, I think the suggestions others have made for running the program 
under different names ("proggy" and "Xproggy") make a lot of sense.  It's 
possible that I'll run your program from an xterm window and although my 
"DISPLAY" environment variable is set and I do have X running, maybe I 
don't want to run the GUI version.

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