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- From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters)
- Subject: Re: Devguide's term pane
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.003020.24152@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov12.160251.1527@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 00:30:20 GMT
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- In article 1527@eng.umd.edu, kelso@eng.umd.edu (John Kelso) writes:
-
- >I'm writing a program using Devguide 3.0. I'd like to have the program
- >open a window and allow the user to enter some Unix commands, and have
- >the program capture the window's contents.
- >
- >Devguide's term pane seems like the obvious choice for this. The problem
- >is that there is almost no documentation about term panes.
- >
- >I looked at the code that was generated, and can see that it uses an object
- >called TERMSW. My O'Reilly books make no mention of this type of object.
-
- The TERMWS package is a union of TEXTSW and TTY. The TERMSW
- implementation is pretty kludgy and Sun have tried (without much
- success) to discourage its use pending the creation of a better
- package. Hence it not being documented in Vol. 7.
-
- Chris Flatters
- cflatter@nrao.edu
-