chui

Do Character User Interfaces have a future?

We've got products built both with GUI and CHUI. Going forward, we're looking at redesigning a lot of our software and mainly taking the route of going all GUI. My question to the group is, do we need to account for keeping a CHUI around? What are the advantages of CHUI over GUI? Many times in the past people have said that CHUI is faste...

How to get the current revision number into a file after export?

I'm maintaining a homebrew web-based CRM that I version-control with Subversion. What I want is to have the revision number written into a file after I do an export to the production server so that I can display it in the CRM's status page for debugging reasons. Is there any way to do this with command-line tools? ...