I'm Looking for Programs with ASCII Interfaces

[jgbishop]

I am designing a program at work that will be a console-application; i.e. the interface being used is a TUI (textual-user-interface) not a GUI.

What programs currently exist that make use of a such an interface? The program I am writing is not similar to a shell or command prompt, so using that as a comparison is out of the question. I want something to which I can compare my interface (and from which I can get ideas).

Does anyone have any suggestions? Something that is menu based would be great, as that is the basic gist of my program. Perhaps Linux has something that would suffice as a good example?

 

[Crusty]

Something ncurses based?

How about pine?

 

[jgbishop]

Something like pine is an idea, but I'm thinking incredibly simple here. Something along the lines of boot disk menus. So, the user is presented with a list of items (A. Foo B. Bar C. Fee fie fo fum) and then prompted to enter a choice. I'm just having a hard time finding something of that nature.