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Date:      Wed, 4 Dec 1996 16:22:00 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        fenner@parc.xerox.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports INDEX browser update
Message-ID:  <199612040552.QAA15727@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <8951.849678020@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 3, 96 09:40:20 pm"

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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
> It also occurs to me that if you're really masoch^H^H^H^H^Hinterested
> in odd solutions, you can always build and use the two widgets from
> "emu" in our ports collection.  It was built specifically for this
> purpose, with "xterm" equivalent functionality derived from several
> cooperating widgets.

That sounds pretty handy!  How do you think that it would compare against
expect and its terminal emulation? (if it does any, for that matter...?)

> If you're genuinely interested, I'd be willing to help.  Talking to
> another "canvas" was always one of the little projects which I never
> got time to do.

I think that it's a core technology requirement for the short-medium
term insofar as our FreeSAM aims are concerned; we need to be able to
run things like the YP map makes &c. and put their output where they
can be seen.

> 				Jordan

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