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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Ports INDEX browser update 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Dec 1996 11:11:43 +1030."
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Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 20:46:04 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Ok; the 64-dollar question : could we replace the termCanvas widget
> with the Tcl text widget?  If this can be done at runtime, then we win
> with a 'term' (rather than 'text') widget that knows how to execute
> programs and disply their output.

I don't see why not.  The termCanvas and the term widgets are
independant, and the "ComBlock" (Communications Block) structure is
used to pass requests back and forth (basically a request code and
some registers for holding value).  As long as you had some code to
read the comblock and DTRT with the requests contained therein upon a
Tk text widget, I don't see a problem.

> > Yeah, Michael's a pretty motivated ports maintainer.  My pattern is
> 
> *ouch* 8)  Ok, ok, what do I have to fix?

No, I meant Michael Elbel.  "*Beep* - Name space collision, invalidate
cache and linear search by last name." :-)

					Jordan