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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: New life for old sw
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.092257@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 16:22:57 GMT
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In article <9106260707.AA04364@vingmed.no>, oaf%pluto@vmsfo.UUCP (Ole Asbjorn Fadum) writes:
|> Has anybody experience with making a graphical interface to an old tty
|> based program? Is it possible without having access to the source (of
|> the old program) ? 

One way to do this is to write a separate graphical user interface
process that connects to the tty-based program though sockets or
pipes.  You won't have all the flexibility of a integrated program, but
this is sufficient for many applications, especially those with highly
modular and modeless command syntaxes.  Some of the mail, debugger, and
game programs floating around do this.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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