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From: dwex@cbnewsj.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Replacement for wind.o
Keywords: MGR
Message-ID: <1991May3.194434.7451@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 3 May 91 19:44:34 GMT
References: <1991May3.163220.24448@cbnewsj.att.com> <1991May3.181308.7065@oswego.oswego.edu>
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In article <1991May3.181308.7065@oswego.oswego.edu> ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) writes:
> In article <1991May3.163220.24448@cbnewsj.att.com> dwex@cbnewsj.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
> >I am planning to put together a small replacement for wind.o for 3B1
> >systems that have pitched UA/wind.o.  
> 
> >Please email me your suggestions, or post followups to comp.sys.3b1.
> 
> Personally, I would *love* to just see a wind.o replacement that allows
> access to the bottom 4 lines of the screen (as someone else suggested).
> 
> ||||Boyd Ostroff / Tech Director / SUNY Oswego Dept of Theatre / 315-341-2987
> ||||Sys Admin at cboard.UUCP / Serving the Performing Arts / 315-947-6414/8N1
> ||||ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu / cboard!ostroff@natasha.oswego.edu

Well, you won't get it from me! :-> (anyone else remember "The Prisoner"?)
I have no intention of re-engineering the complete wind.o.  All I'm
going to do is provide something that allows the console to 

	1) screen blank
	2) have a cursor (I like cursors)
	3) Be able to back-space properly (what's the deal, dudes?)
	4) handle ksh emacs-mode line editting (stop nuking the
	   end of my line!!)
	5) Do enough smart-terminal stuff to run less and 
	   vi/emacs/ex-open-mode
	6) Anything else I get around to (or someone bribes me to
	   do

No windows, no icons, no menus, no pointers!  If I want a WIMP, I'll
go see my MGR (can I say that :-?).


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