[comp.windows.x] ASCII terminal X

meo@rsiatl.UUCP (Miles ONeal) (06/10/90)

I need a character-based, X-like environment.

Specifically, I need something that approximates
Xt and widgets, for character-based terminals.
Preferably portable, using curses, or at least
terminfo/termcap. No graphics, just text.

It doesn't necessarily have to support a client/server
modle, but could be a simple library. It should include
at least basic widgets (label, command, etc) and be easily
extensible.

Yes, I realize it would be very limited compared to X.
So what?

Is there anything like this out there?

-Miles O'Neal
emory!rsiatl!meo

peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (06/11/90)

What you want is STDWIN. See uunet:~ftp/amiga-sources.
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[Last modified on Wed Nov  9 13:42:51 MET 1988 by guido]

This directory contains the STDWIN distribution.

STDWIN is copyrighted: Copyright (c) 1988 by Stichting Mathematisch
Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  STDWIN is available for
noncommercial use only, free of charge, and with no guarantees.  It can
be freely used and distributed provided these restrictions are honoured.

STDWIN exists for various systems.  Some code is shared between all
systems, some code is specific to a particular system.  Below is a
matrix, listing for each system which directories you should fetch; demo
programs are listed with those systems for which they make sense.

		TERMCAP	MS-DOS	X11	MAC	ATARI	Notes
MAIN.tar.Z	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	info and Makefile
alfa.tar.Z	Y	Y	-	-	-
atari.tar.Z	-	-	-	-	Y
bed.tar.Z	-	-	Y	Y	Y	demo
conf.tar.Z	Y	-	Y	-	-	configuration
dpv.tar.Z	-	-	Y	-	-	demo
gen.tar.Z	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
h.tar.Z		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	header files
mac.tar.Z	-	-	-	Y	-
man.tar.Z	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	man pages
miniedit.tar.Z	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	demo
msdos.tar.Z	-	Y	-	-	-
ptrm.tar.Z	-	Y	-	-	-
qview.tar.Z	Y	-	Y	-	-	demo
test.tar.Z	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	test programs
textedit.tar.Z	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
tools.tar.Z	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
vt.tar.Z	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
vtest.tar.Z	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	demo
vtrm.tar.Z	Y	-	-	-	-
x11.tar.Z	-	-	Y	-	-

(Sorry for making this so complicated.  Some day, I'll get to
simplifying the installation process.)

To get a complete implementation for any one target system, retrieve
the indicated files (don't forget to set binary mode in ftp) into
a freshly created directory.  Every file retrieved should be run
through uncompress and tar, as follows:

	uncompress <MAIN.tar.Z | tar xf -

Every archive file extracts files into a single subdirectory, named
after the archive's basename, except MAIN.tar.Z, which extracts files
into the current directory.

Then follow the steps of configuration and compilation mentioned in the
file INSTALL.  Some test programs are found in the subdirectory test
(although not all programs there make sense for the termcap version).
A more elaborate test program is miniedit, which implements a simple
multi-window text editor.  It is possible to build the TERMCAP and X11
versions in the same directory. 

If you have any problems or requests, please mail to guido@cwi.nl
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bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) (06/14/90)

In article <XA+3N53@ggpc2.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
|What you want is STDWIN. See uunet:~ftp/amiga-sources.
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|[Last modified on Wed Nov  9 13:42:51 MET 1988 by guido]
|
|This directory contains the STDWIN distribution.
|
|[...]
|
|STDWIN exists for various systems.  Some code is shared between all
|systems, some code is specific to a particular system.  Below is a
|matrix, listing for each system which directories you should fetch; demo
|programs are listed with those systems for which they make sense.
|
|		TERMCAP	MS-DOS	X11	MAC	ATARI	Notes
|[...]

	Hey, where's the stuff for my Amiga?

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peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (06/14/90)

In article <16237@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
> 	Hey, where's the stuff for my Amiga?

If you want to port STDWIN to the Amiga, be my guest. I have not
had time to do it myself, though that was my original intent when I
put it in the alt.sources.amiga archive directory.
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