Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:42:18 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jerry Kendall <jerry@border.com> Cc: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xforms maintenance tools (was Re: Tcl/Tk sysinstall) Message-ID: <12876.825446538@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:28:36 EST." <96Feb27.093616est.20485-2@janus.border.com>
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> I have been working on a diskmaint utility to 'fdisk/disklabel' a newly > added drive to FreeBSD. I tried with 'dialog' and found it to be seriously > 'limiting'. Gave up on 'dialog'. Then tried to use 'Tcl/Tk' and found that > to be to cumbersome. The new dialog library (in -current) gives you considerably more flexibility, though I agree that it's still not the best. I was talking to jtc the other day and he mentioned that the new curses has menus and advanced controls - I haven't looked yet, but THAT sounds very promising! > 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 > once I have finished the 'diskmaint' utility.. I just wish it were available in source form.. :-( Jordan
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