Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 10:43:03 -0500 From: Jerry Kendall <jerry@border.com> To: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xforms maintenance tools Message-ID: <96Feb28.105102est.20486-1@janus.border.com> In-Reply-To: <199602272228.XAA00787@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Ollivier Robert wrote:
>
> 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).
>
> --
I am NOT trying to force every FreeBSD system to run X. I just saw a need
for some tools to allow 'easy' configuration of new disks...
Dialog is just NOT capable of doing what I need to do.. It has VERY
SERIUOS limitations...
Sorry.. It is going to be done in X(It's almost done now).
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