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From: kit@athena.mit.edu (Chris D. Peterson)
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Subject: Re: Problems with Athena Text widget
Keywords: Athena Text Widget
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Date: 9 Nov 88 17:55:26 GMT
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It sounds like what you really want is an "asciiTerminal" widget that acts
like a tty terminal.  We have talked about implementing this, but never
seem to find the time, If anyone out there wants to code it, and give it
to us this would speed up the process.  Perhaps something like this will
appear in the Athena widget set, but I wouldn't count on it being soon.

As far as emulating this behavior in the Athena text widget, I don't think
it is possible to get exactly the behavior that you want.  Although putting
the widget in append-only mode may help.

						Chris D. Peterson     
						Project Athena     
						Systems Development

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