tourist information


tourist information

Information in an on-line display that is not immediatelyuseful, but contributes to a viewer's gestalt of what's goingon with the software or hardware behind it. Whether a givenpiece of info falls in this category depends partly on whatthe user is looking for at any given time. The "bytes free"information at the bottom of an MS-DOS "dir" display istourist information; so (most of the time) is the TIMEinformation in a Unix "ps(1)" display.