a status bar can also be text-based, primarily in console-based applications, in which case it is usually the last row in an 80x25 text mode configuration, leaving the top 24 rows for application data. usually the status bar (called a "status line" in this context) displays the current state of the application, as well as helpful keyboard shortcuts. one example is the 'vi' text editor of unix (from the 1970s) or newer linux systems.