Re: [MacPerl-Porters] MacPerl terminal

[pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)]

Arved Sandstrom wrote:

> 
> 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

Speaking of which - this topic just came up in a ppt context.  I presume
that a port of the Curses module to the Mac will await the availability of
such character cell hooks.  So does anyone know what NCSA||Better telnet use?
They can be used to login to a machine with curses and run curses application 
(e.g. lynx web browser).  Do they use QuickDraw Text?
Thanks.

Peter Prymmer


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