Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!abyss.eng.umd.edu!djm From: djm@abyss.eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: BRIEF emulation Message-ID: <8912010338.AA22163@abyss.eng.umd.edu> Date: 1 Dec 89 03:38:21 GMT References: <1126@intermec.UUCP> <5608@cps3xx.UUCP> Distribution: usa Organization: University of Maryland Lines: 25 In article <5608@cps3xx.UUCP> usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes: >If anything exists (and I doubt it) similar to what you're looking it's >bound to be very terminal specific and still won't give them everything >they want. > >However, if I am wrong, someone please send me a copy of the code so I >can make it available to my users. Earlier this year (or maybe it was late last year) a free Brief clone for Unix called Crisp (an obscure synonym for "brief") appeared in comp.sources.misc. It can be configured for any kind of keyboard and display; I've used it on both a Wyse 50 and a PC running MS-Kermit; it also comes with macros to configure it for the Xenix, 386/ix, and AT&T/Intel 386 Unix consoles. Unfortunately, the author, Paul Fox, lost his net access when he quit his job (he lives in England), and I haven't heard from him since. He was going to work on emulating the newer Brief macro language (the one that's like C) in addition to the Lisp-like older macro language that Crisp currently supports, but I don't know of any way (short of sending Paul snail mail) to get any improvements he's made to Crisp since the comp.sources.misc posting. He was improving it quite intensely at that time, so I suspect he's done more to it since then, as well. -- David J. MacKenzie Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com