From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 10 16:59:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA13575 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:59:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA13563 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:59:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id JAA12508; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:28:26 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706102358.JAA12508@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: REQ: help from Emacs/XEmacs/Jove/Jed/... users In-Reply-To: <199706101736.TAA28819@wicx21.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> from Matthias Buelow at "Jun 10, 97 07:36:34 pm" To: token@wicx50.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Matthias Buelow) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:28:26 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@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-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Matthias Buelow stands accused of saying: > > If I thought TurboVision could be used to make a small 'edit' like editor, > > I'd suggest _that_ as much better again. > > I only remember Turbo Vision from olde DOS days and I also remember that > it produced the fattest binaries (statically linked) that I've seen from > a DOS library. A small hello-world proggy and you could watch it include > > 100K lines and dumping a binary that was over 250K in size. I don't OK, scratch that idea then 8) > expect it too be much smaller in the Unix world, you still have to keep > the TV library around (not very good for boot disks), although I haven't > looked at the Unix implementation of TV so far (I detest it). Fair enough. Any suggestions for an alternative? -- ]] 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 [[