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From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Subject: Re: xforms maintenance tools (was Re: Tcl/Tk sysinstall)
To: mikee@sys8.wfc.com (Mike Eggleston)
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 20:21:27 +0100 (MET)
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>From the keyboard of Mike Eggleston:

> Why not have a html/cgi based manager.  That would run under lynx,
> chimera, mosaic, etc., for local and remote administration.

Seconded. IMHO such a maintenance tool must not only run in an X based
environment but also in a character based environment.

One should use a toolkit which runs under both X and curses.

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis           hm@altona.hamburg.com              Hamburg, Europe
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