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ncurses is a programming library providing an API, allowing the programmer to write text user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner. It's a toolkit for developing "GUI-like" apps which run under a terminal emulator.
There are probably others available, but that's the one that is used for all the open source software I can think of.
To me a "GUI" means that you can click on things with a mouse. The typical text-mode interaction just allows tabbing between options, and selecting with "enter". That you can do---eg---with dialog.
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