Which Text-Based UI Do You Code With?

JHWH asks: "I've been asked to design and implement a management software system with text based user interface as the replacement of an older one running on AS/400. Despite my attempts towards a web UI, the customer is actually willing to have a text based UI. The main reasons are the need for a very low bandwidth and the ability to run on serial terminals. All this in the 21st century! Host systems will be Linux, the language will be C or C++. I already thought about the use of text based browsers like lynx or links. So now I have to wipe the dust away from my ncurses manual, or can Slashdot suggest something more effective?"

web based with lynx

[lpcustom]

Just for shits and giggles make it web based and force them to use lynx to interface with it.

pokey reference

[Inmatarian]

This should get me modded down and/or knocked unconscious from repeated canings to the face or something.

Conio!

Isn't there a linux port of that?

Re:SLANG

[ColaMan]

Is that post of yours poetry? It almost could be, you know.

Re:web based with lynx

[Geoffreyerffoeg]

Oh, come on. Surely you can implement a terminal in JavaScript [masswerk.at]?

What's wrong with asinine?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Slapping a web server on an embedded system just so you can interface to them is beyond asinine."

Shhh! Don't tell Brandybuck about this. [linksys.com]

Re:SLANG

[jbrader]

You are like the e e cummings of ./ posts.