Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 23:33:40 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: David Banning <tracker@worldy.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help writing for ASCII terminals Message-ID: <3898B0C4.A7CE0981@nisser.com> References: <000801bf695b$1136aec0$b71e05d1@tracker>
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> David Banning wrote: > > I am interested in writing an application with graphics / text boxes for > ASCII terminals. > It seems xterm communicates through ASCII, but it seems to me that a > non-xterminal > couldn't even fire-up an X11 program - would it? > > Is there a widget set (maybe non-X11) out there that would help me do this? I think it would be better to get some experience with glass TTY's first. Especially regarding the 'graphics' thing. Get your hands on an Ann-Arbor, DEC, Televideo, Wyse, IBM, whatever terminal and browse through its manual. Look into the termcap file if you like. Basically the only graphics they've got in common is things like /\+-| and like chars like = and _. It could probably fire up a X11 program, but would not be able to render its output. Roelof -- Dog's house @ http://cairni.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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