Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!encore!paradis
From: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: ELLE
Message-ID: <2411@encore.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 87 21:02:54 GMT
References: <1805@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Organization: The Whizzo Chocolate Company
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In article <1805@botter.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>If anyone has installed ELLE, please post your experiences with it, as well
>as gripes, etc.  Is anyone planning to make it compile on MINIX, presumably 
>by very carefully deleting a few files?

Sorry, Andy... it's just that I'm very bad about sending thank-you notes
for Christmas presents... doubly so if I'm too busy PLAYING with the new
Christmas toy to remember!

ELLE came up pretty easily on my system... I'm using my own TTY driver, and
getting ELLE pretty much forced the issue of fixing my driver to support
ANSI escape sequences (which I did in about two hours).  Unfortunately,
I can't think of any way of coming up with a termcap "cm" entry to describe
the way cursor movement is done with the MINIX non-ANSI driver, so ANSI
support is pretty much a necessity.  Other than that, it came up for me
without a hitch, and I've been using it quite productively ever since!

As for getting it to compile under MINIX, that may be one of my subsequent
projects once my TTY driver is done.  You probably haven't heard about it
because the sources haven't appeared on bugs.nosc.mil until today (Dec. 28);
I just ftp'ed them over not half an hour ago.

Anyway, many, many thanks!

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