From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 14:39:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA14189 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:39:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA14169 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:39:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id XAA09707 ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:38:31 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id XAA07491 ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:38:31 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.3/keltia-uucp-2.7) id XAA00787; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:28:30 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199602272228.XAA00787@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: xforms maintenance tools (was Re: Tcl/Tk sysinstall) To: jerry@border.com (Jerry Kendall) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:28:29 +0100 (MET) Cc: dufault@hda.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <96Feb27.093616est.20485-2@janus.border.com> from Jerry Kendall at "Feb 27, 96 09:28:36 am" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1688 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL7 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Jerry Kendall said: > Now I am using the xforms library and the fdesign gui builder... It looks > great and works very well. Have decided to write some other utilities Erm, do you really must use xforms ? Some of the things I saw made with it were awful, especially menus... (tried XFmail). The interest of dialog is that it runs on the console _and_ under X11 (well in an xterm but it is better than only X11). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Tue Feb 20 01:16:51 MET 1996