🚀 go-pugleaf

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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