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From: BUCHANSH%CLDEV@dupont.COM (Scott Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Motif to ASCII Converter??
Message-ID: <9106141435.AA03748@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 91 14:02:00 GMT
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Hello,

	Could someone please tell me if such a product exists.

	I am looking for a run-time Motif to ASCII converter. I believe that
this product would act like an X-Server for the X-Client but would translate the
display to ASCII so-that it could be displayed on a dump ASCII terminal. The
user would get this functionality by setting his/her display argument to the
Motif->ASCII converter when invoking the Motif based application. The converter
would then display the ASCII equivalent of the Motif screen in ASCII on the
user's terminal. 

	I realize that not all X11 elements could be mapped but at least the
major constructs of Motif (Pushbuttons, Labels, Text, PulldownMenus) would be
nice to have. The reason for such a request is that I have several simple Motif
application I wish to develop but these application must be accessible to ASCII
based terminals. I also realize that several virtual-toolkit products on the
market will allow for this functionality when building a tool but I would like 
to
build applications independent of a vendors toolkit and have this Motif->ASCII
conversion for applications that I do not build. 

	Is this type of product available or even possible?

Thanks
	Scott Buchanan