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

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <keurcq$r4b$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.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.

Yes, BookReader is.  The documentation is in BookReader, but the program 
itself has a character-cell interface.

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

Well, there is also HELP.  :-)