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Article #24167Re: New life for old sw
From: Ken Lee
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 16:22
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 16:22
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In article <9106260707.AA04364@vingmed.no>, oaf%pluto@vmsfo.UUCP (Ole Asbjorn Fadum) writes: |> Has anybody experience with making a graphical interface to an old tty |> based program? Is it possible without having access to the source (of |> the old program) ? One way to do this is to write a separate graphical user interface process that connects to the tty-based program though sockets or pipes. You won't have all the flexibility of a integrated program, but this is sufficient for many applications, especially those with highly modular and modeless command syntaxes. Some of the mail, debugger, and game programs floating around do this. -- Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!think.com!samsung!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!wsl.dec.com!klee From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: New life for old sw Message-ID: <1991Jun27.092257@wsl.dec.com> Date: 27 Jun 91 16:22:57 GMT References: <9106260707.AA04364@vingmed.no> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Reply-To: klee@wsl.dec.com Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory Lines: 17