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From: kees@echelon.nl (Kees Hendrikse)
Subject: Re: Any progress on K95 GUI?
Date: 10 Jul 1999 09:56:53 GMT
Organization: Echelon bv Consultancy & Software Development
Message-ID: <dMOb1sSMsXcx-pn2-02RelyOLMJDT@victor.echelon.nl>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 14:16:55, fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
wrote:
(..)
> It is still being worked on. Version 1.1.18 will be available in a
> pure-GUI form -- no console window anywhere. But by popular demand
> (yes, really) it will also still be available in a console version.
(..)
> We have, all this time, committed ourselves to production of a full GUI
> version of K95, and we are still committed to it. However, it might help
> to understand better exactly why people want it.
(..)
Our customers use K/95 (as well as MS-Kermit, K/2 and C-Kermit) to run
curses-based Unix apps. With carefully crafted init files the end-users
don't even know they run the apps through a telnet terminal emulator and
it's 100% transparent accross all the platforms in use.
The only reason we might have to introduce the GUI version, is that it
looks more like other Win screens, which somehow seems to give the users
a warm and fuzzy feeling :-). In other words, we are not waiting for the
GUI version to arrive and will probably continue using the console version.
--
Kees Hendrikse | email: kees@echelon.nl
| web: www.echelon.nl
ECHELON consultancy and software development | phone: +31 (0)53 48 36 585
PO Box 545, 7500AM Enschede, The Netherlands | fax: +31 (0)53 43 36 222