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klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) writes:

>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

Or you can try Alex. Alex is a commercial product which allows you to "watch"
a tty based program and generate an OpenLook or Motif front end for it using
the Alex language. I previously worked on developing Alex, writing among other
things, a mail front end and creating an off-line reader for CIX (a conferencing

system in the UK).

You can talk to Alex Technologies on 081-566-2307.... (thats in the UK)

Dj



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