Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 10:49:11 -0500 From: Jerry Kendall <jerry@border.com> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: Mike Eggleston <mikee@sys8.wfc.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xforms maintenance tools (was Re: Tcl/Tk sysinstall) Message-ID: <96Feb28.105730est.20487-1@janus.border.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960228161956.6804A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Narvi wrote:
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> On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Mike Eggleston wrote:
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> > >>>>> "Ollivier" == Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> writes:
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> > > 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).
> >
> > Why not have a html/cgi based manager. That would run under lynx,
> > chimera, mosaic, etc., for local and remote administration.
> >
> > Mike
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> How about security? I don't feel I would like that kind of management
> tool...
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Well put!!
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