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- From: rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Wish List
- Message-ID: <1993Jan29.024559.25803@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041
- References: <jcmorris.728067551@mwunix> <gershon.728114431@husc.harvard.edu> <1993Jan28.211109.18640@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 02:45:59 GMT
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- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) wrote:
- >In article <gershon.728114431@husc.harvard.edu> gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
- >>Also: A PM-based command line interpreter. Like an xterm with scroll
- >>back and resizable windows. Stdin/out apps (like copy, unzip, etc) would
- >>appear in the window, full screen apps (like TED) would have a fresh
- >>window set up for them.
- >
- >This would require a new session type. But it could be faked with a
- >PM program and a named pipe. Just create a windowed session minimized
- >and link it's stdin/stdout to the PM app with two pipes. VIO apps
- >would fail to run properly. But stdio based apps would work fine.
-
- Not really. You can do what was done in OS2YOU and I beleive IBM's
- telnetd and write a VIO subsystem that registers itself for that
- session... then you can just convert the VIO stuff to PM calls.
-
- >Since IBM isn't supporting non-stdio text-mode apps (except for
- >compatibility with 1.3), this gets more appealing as time goes on.
-
- I was wondering what the exact stance was on this... if this is the
- case, it would be nice to see some kind of curses-like facility so
- that there is a standard way to write full-screen text apps.
-
- -Dave
-
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