If the user didn't mind snow, he could turn it off and get faster text output.

When echo is in effect, any conventional text output to the screen will be copied ("echoed") to the printer.

Therefore shell builtins are usually used for simple, almost trivial, functions, such as text output.

Blind computer users, who cannot use a normal computer monitor, use it to read text output.

The game's interaction with the player is mainly through text output, but occasionally during the game static graphics are displayed.

This text output can then be pasted into other programs.

Using objects eliminates the need to explicitly parse text output to extract data.

The examples below make use of the function for standard text output.

This also disables the text output by chkdsk.

The MX-80 combined affordability with good-quality text output (for its time).