From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, WEIRD_PORT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a83ac04244a76ea9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" Subject: Re: Terminal IO, and menus Date: 1999/04/04 Message-ID: <3707B48C.48F09E46@online.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 462627904 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7drb1p$48k$1@nw001t.infi.net> <3702AD4D.1EE439A4@t-online.de> <7e2sev$lh7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@online.no X-Trace: news1.online.no 923252233 130.67.225.204 (Sun, 04 Apr 1999 20:57:13 MET DST) Organization: Jensen programvareutvikling MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 20:57:13 MET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jerry van Dijk wrote: > dennison@telepath.com wrote: > : Another nifty idea would be a port of DEC's SMG library. SMG is much > : higer-level than curses, and thus is a lot easier to get into. > > Ok, I will admit publically I have used VMS a lot (even to the point of having > a DCL shell on my PC :-), so this sounds interesting. Any info on it ? > Like: is there free documentation and what the copyright status is ? SMG ocumentation: http://www.openvms.digital.com:8000/72final/5935/5935pro.html General VMS documentation: http://www.openvms.digital.com:8000/ There is more than one thing to this. Not only will one have to create a SMG clone, but also one needs to do something about terminal handling. E.g. something that recognizes that [ and is the same. In short; this sounds interesting. For a reasonable vt terminal emulator have a look at kermit. There are versions of it (at least for os/2) which can be used to test how well one is doing. I assume that the DOS version is as good as the os/2 version as far as emulation goes. Neither of them can do double width/height stuff. It would be nice to be able to use VT terminals in 8 bit mode. Greetings,