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From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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In-reply-to: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of Tue, 02 Dec 1997 02:27:31 -0800
Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) 
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> 
> > Is it that much work? I thought they put all lowlevel stuff in
> > one file (system.cc?). I have only briefly glanced at it though.
> 
> Well, why not take a more thorough look and come back and let us know? :-)

IIRC: It would be pretty hard unless you either get pragmatic and get
something that look more-or-less like a CUI, or give TurboVision a
work-over first.  Very much of the TurboVision code expects you to pass
coordinates as character positions; wouldn't be too nice for a truly
graphical interface.

BTW: I think Borlands OWL (Object Windows Library) is based on the
same hierarchy as TurboVision.  I might be wrong, though.

Eivind.