Re: [MacPerl-Porters] MacPerl terminal

[Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Chris Nandor wrote:

> (cc:d to Matthias in case he is not on the list.)
> 
> When the text package is overhauled in MacPerl (from TextEdit to WASTE, I
> think it is), it might be a good time to look into providing terminal
> capabilities to MacPerl.  There are several solutions.  Joseph Hall
> mentioned a cross-platform terminal emulation library.  Matthias, you
> probably know of one or two already.  There is Mac06, which is a POSIX
> layer for Mac OS, which does terminal stuff now I think, and might be made
> to work with the MPW tool or something.
> 
> Just some ideas and thoughts.
> 
Well worth discussing, too, IMHO. I've run into a couple of MacPerl
situations already where I most emphatically didn't want GUI's or
Quickdraw Text, just character-based full-screen mode terminal capability.

I might dig around myself. Preferable solutions are XPlatform, at least as
far as the user is concerned.

Good topic. Arved



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