From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 4 01:44:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA21228 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 01:44:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA21223 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 01:44:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id UAA16234; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 20:06:54 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199612040936.UAA16234@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: text, menu/dialog/windowing, library, ideas? In-Reply-To: <199612040748.IAA20702@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> from Thomas Gellekum at "Dec 4, 96 08:48:10 am" To: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 20:06:53 +1030 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, terry@lambert.org, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thomas Gellekum stands accused of saying: > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I'm not disinterested and neither are any of the rest of us who would > > love to start writing a "SAM" equivalent tool for FreeBSD but lack a > > What's SAM? Dunno exactly; in context it almost certainly means "System Administration Manager". If you've ever used SCO think of "scoadmin", Ultrix consider "opser" (was that Ultrix or Umax; I can't remember now) etc. Basically, an integrated system administration frontend; a group of us have been bouncing ideas back and forth for a while now and trying out various small technology components that need to be there before we can make the whole work. > tg -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[