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From: montnaro@sprite.steinmetz (Skip Montanaro)
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Subject: Re: Toolkit for NeWS
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Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 09:32:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 23 09:32:41 1987
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In article <644@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> zwicky@kiwi.cis.ohio-state.edu
 (Elizabeth D. Zwicky) writes:
>I am hoping/praying for the next release; I
>want a better terminal emulator, a lock screen program, and more X
>support, and non-PostScript people around me want more help dealing
>with NeWS from other languages (not just C but also Pascal and Lisp).
>
>Elizabeth Zwicky (zwicky@ohio-state.arpa or cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!zwicky)

We're beta testing NeWS 1.1 right now. 

PSTerm:

Psterm is faster, and has more features (like settable lines and
columns, page mode, ...), plus it is more intelligent (reasonable?)
about reading the environment (terminal size, etc). I've tried its
vt100 emulation and found it is still lacking in at least one way
there. /etc/termcap has the clear screen sequence defined as
"\e[H\e[2J". Psterm appears to choke on the second escape sequence,
thus preventing the screen from clearing. Of course, when running
programs that don't use termcap to drive the screen, such as DEC's VMS
utilities, there are lots of problems. (Try MONITOR on a VMS VAX
sometime.) 

Lockscreen:

Why not use the SunView lockscreen for the time being? It runs just
fine from NeWS. 

X:

1.1 doesn't have X support yet. That's a separate merged X/NeWS
product. 

Non-C support:

As far as I know, there's no new support for languages other than C,
certainly nothing equivalent to cps yet.

Skip (montanaro@ge-crd.arpa or uunet!steinmetz!sprite!montanaro)