From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Dec 3 21:52:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA07831 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 21:52:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA07822 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 21:52:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id QAA15727; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 16:22:01 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199612040552.QAA15727@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Ports INDEX browser update In-Reply-To: <8951.849678020@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 3, 96 09:40:20 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 16:22:00 +1030 (CST) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, ports@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[