[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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