[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

David Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Wed Feb 6 19:10:54 EST 2013


Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article <keud4k$7nb$1 at dont-email.me>, Hunter Goatley
> <goathunter at goatley.com> writes: 
> 
>>  > I'm tempted to take a look to see if it's DECwindows based or character
>>  > call terminal based.
>>
>> NEWSRDR is not DECwindows-based. It only works on character-cell 
>> terminals (and DECterms, etc).
> 
> The last I heard Matt was not maintaining it anymore.  I don't think the 
> code is in the public domain, but if he is not going to do anything more 
> with it, maybe he could donate it to the community.  There are a few 
> minor improvements which could be made.
> 
> It has BookReader documentation.  How cool is that?
> 

Well, I seem to remember that BookReader was DECwindows based.  Could be 
wrong, it's been a long time.

Maybe cool, but, plain text would be more universally accepted.

KISS



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