Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:28:36 -0500 From: Jerry Kendall <jerry@border.com> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: xforms maintenance tools (was Re: Tcl/Tk sysinstall) Message-ID: <96Feb27.093616est.20485-2@janus.border.com> In-Reply-To: <199602271035.FAA03315@hda.com>
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On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Peter Dufault wrote:
>
> Tcl/TK is the best 90% solution I've seen. I've used it a lot
> lately, including my own fastgraph widget for displaying collected
> signals. My biggest complaint is the creeping size of my scripts, some
> of which have ballooned to 1000 lines, and the difficulty to really
> get everything right which I believe would be more easily done in C.
> Starting over now I'm sure I'd do it better. The newer TK also addresses
> some of the comments I've seen on this thread and does a better
> job without any tweaking.
>
I have been working on a diskmaint utility to 'fdisk/disklabel' a newly
added drive to FreeBSD. I tried with 'dialog' and found it to be seriously
'limiting'. Gave up on 'dialog'. Then tried to use 'Tcl/Tk' and found that
to be to cumbersome.
Now I am using the xforms library and the fdesign gui builder... It looks
great and works very well. Have decided to write some other utilities
once I have finished the 'diskmaint' utility..
With time, I hope to build an entire suite of tools to do large amounts
of regular system administration with X.
Things I have in mind are :PPP/SLIP, DNS/BIND, user manager(setup, passwords
and the like), uucp manager, printer manager, backup/restore tools, etc...
Any other tools that can be sugested, commented on, would be gratefull.
This is not a promise but merely a 'see if it can be done' type of thing.
FWIW.
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