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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>menuitis</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="memory-smash.html" title="memory smash"/><link rel="next" href="mess-dos.html" title="mess-dos"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">menuitis</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="memory-smash.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mess-dos.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="menuitis"/><dt xmlns="" id="menuitis"><b>menuitis</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/men`yoo·i:´tis/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively
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simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely
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irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or
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language-style interfaces, especially those customizable via macros or a
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special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks. See
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<a href="../U/user-obsequious.html"><i class="glossterm">user-obsequious</i></a>,
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<a href="../D/drool-proof-paper.html"><i class="glossterm">drool-proof paper</i></a>, <a href="../W/WIMP-environment.html"><i class="glossterm">WIMP environment</i></a>,
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<a href="../F/for-the-rest-of-us.html"><i class="glossterm">for the rest of us</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="memory-smash.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mess-dos.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">memory smash </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mess-dos</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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