Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!mcdchg!ddsw1!tapa!larry
From: larry@tapa.UUCP (Larry Pajakowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: scrip + history = cmdline history ??????
Message-ID: <614@tapa.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 14:06:31 GMT
Reply-To: larry@.UUCP (Larry Pajakowski)
Organization: Pata System Consultants
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We have several DOS users who would probably convert to Xenix for development
except they loose the ability to have a command line editor such as NDE inside
of the integrated 4GL environment we use.  [I miss DOS NDE or history  also.]

Script seems to have all the hooks necessary for such an effort and works well
under Xenix-386 except for one problem I can't figure a way around.  The
application (Zim if your interested) uses both cooked and raw modes.  

Under DOS this is easy to handle since the application uses DOS i/o for cooked
and BIOS and/or direct screen write for raw i/o.  Xenix/Unix on the other hand
uses ioctl calls to do this.  How could a program like script which uses pty's
figure out when to buffer keystrokes for the cooked input or get out of the
way for the raw input?

Any suggetions would be appreciated and of course I would be happy to share
anything useful which may come of this with this group.

TNX

Larry Pajakowski
...ddsw1!tapa!larry