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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!srvr1.engin.umich.edu!uvaarpa!mmdf
  3. From: Dov Grobgeld <dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il>
  4. Subject: Re: X and Perl
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan21.074019.3648@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
  6. Sender: mmdf@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Mail System)
  7. Reply-To: dov@menora.weizmann.ac.il
  8. Organization: The Internet
  9. Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:40:19 GMT
  10. Lines: 24
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  12. scott@winnetou.santafe.edu (Scott D. Yelich) said:
  13.  
  14. |   >    Are there any plans to include any X window system support (for
  15. |   >even "trivial" things like form-fill-in dialog boxes) in Perl in the 
  16. |   >near future?
  17. |   You could run "xmessage" as an external process to do this.
  18. |
  19. | Have you seen WAFE?
  20. | Scott
  21.  
  22. Yes, but it is a lot easier programming in Perl than in tcl, which is
  23. needed for the wafe interaction. 
  24.  
  25. Larry, are your X-bindings clean enough to be released together with Perl 5.0? 
  26. (How is the new version coming along, btw?)
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  31. Dov Grobgeld                                         ( o  o  ) o   |
  32. The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel             \  o  /o  o /
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