From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Dec 4 20:57:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.3/8.7.3) id UAA13836 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 20:57:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA13825 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 20:57:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id PAA20287; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 15:27:24 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199612050457.PAA20287@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Ports INDEX browser update In-Reply-To: <5511.849761164@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 4, 96 08:46:04 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 15:27:23 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, fenner@parc.xerox.com, ports@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > 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. Hmm, sounds relatively straigtforward then. When can I expect a shlib with the term widget in it? 8) 8) Ok Ok, I'm working on PC-Emu at the moment. Maybe tomorrow I'll get a chance to look. Thanks for the info so far. > > > 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." :-) Oh Duh! It gets better; I thought _you_ were the maintainer, and "me" was meant as humour. Let's just forget the whole thing 8( > Jordan > -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[