in reply to GUI on all platforms

To answer your question in a manner which is both entirely accurate, and fairly useless, "Yes." As a bit more useful answer, there are several, of which the Tk module is probably, overall, the easiest to use.

By "terminal" do you mean remote access or do you mean as a command line program?

Incidentally, it's quite incorrect to refer to Perl as "dos based" Perl originates from the Unix world, and is command-line based.

emc

"Being forced to write comments actually improves code, because it is easier to fix a crock than to explain it. "
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