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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tourist information</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="tourist.html" title="tourist"/><link rel="next" href="touristic.html" title="touristic"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tourist information</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tourist.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="touristic.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tourist-information"/><dt xmlns="" id="tourist-information"><b>tourist information</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Information in an on-line display that is not immediately useful,
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but contributes to a viewer's gestalt of what's going on with the software
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or hardware behind it. Whether a given piece of info falls in this
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category depends partly on what the user is looking for at any given time.
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The ‘bytes free’ information at the bottom of an MS-DOS or
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Windows <b class="command">dir</b> display is tourist information;
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so (most of the time) is the TIME information in a Unix
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ps</span>(1)</span>
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display.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="tourist.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="touristic.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">tourist<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>touristic</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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