pc2d+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Philip Edward Cutone, III") (03/02/90)
There has been a lot of confusion regarding my previous post. Philip Dye
<pd1h+@andrew.cmu.edu> seems to be the only have caught the gist of what I
want to do. I wish to write a program that acts
like a window manager, but over the modem instead of on the machine. The
program I want to write would consist of two programs.
1> a window manager program similar to X11, or window manager
This program would be run on the machine I was logged into and would
take the output from all processes running and encode it before
being transferred over the line.
2>a telecommunication program for the machine I am on.
This program would allow me to dial up, and communicate as any comm.
software would do, with one twist: Whenever it received a certain
encoded command, it would create/resize/destroy/output text/ ou
tput
graphics (not at first of course) or whatever the window manage
r program told it to do.
I am yet to try screen (but will be sure to do so when I get home tonight!)
although it does not seem to be exactly what I want to do.
I know this is a big project (really big, considering I am just learning about
C, Sockets, plugs and the such) But I am willing to make a go of it. Maybe I
will finally get it done for graduation (I am a fresh now) ;->
Well, like I formally requested, I would like any source to say vt102 emulation
software, or socket demonstration, or a suggestion or two, anything. The key to
writing good software is finding out what people want, not what the programmer
wants. I do not know if I am ever going to market this program (assuming I ever
get it to work), but if I do, I will do my best to acknowledge anyone who helps
me on this project, even give them a free registered copy! ;-) Well that is
what I have to say, hope this clears things up a little.
me
sorry for the whitespace after this...
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Philip Edward Cutone III
`And in 'The End' the love you take, is equal to the love, you make.'--Beatles
'Let's Make Love!'-- Cutone
'What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties;
in form and moving how express and admirable, in action like an angel, in
apprehension like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragorn of animals!'
(Hamlet, Act II, scene ii)
lots of comments on this quote....
YES IT IS ALSO FROM HAIR!!!! ;->
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