I have found zock to be quite friendly -- cursor seems to be in the right place. I think you need to decide which program is the closest approximation to what you need and make changes to it. The task should not be too difficult -- get used to event based programming this is -- and the use of languages like visual basic -- is the main difference whether its windows or not.
on Thursday 04/02/2009 Joe Lanier([email protected]) wrote > Script gurus, > > In the good ol days of DOS, one was able to effectively utilize most > terminal emulator programs. These included procomm-plus, kermit and others. > Later in the game, the terminal emulators that ran in dos mode worked > relatively well until windows 2000 and xp. Now, there are terminal programs > such as putty, roboterm and zoc, to mention a few. Where, with a lot of > extra effort, can be used. I, personally, use putty. > > To those that aren't familiar with terminal emulators, these software > packages allow access to UNIX, mainframe and certain computer devices. The > display of characters is in a fixed boundary. The usual size of a terminal > screen is 25 lines by 80 characters wide. The reasoning for this approach > to interfacing with a computer in this fashion is that the control > mechanisms(command line) has way too many facits to make a gui(graphical > user interface) to hard to use. Also, there is what is commonly called > legacy technology. This means that terminal emulators have been used since > the advent of personal computers. Prior to that, there were dedicated > devices called dumb terminals. This don't mean the device was dumb, but, > the device was dedicated to a single purpose. That purpose was to control a > remote computer. > > Now, the challenge is to try and make the speech behavior act more like they > did before dos was taken away. When one interacts with UNIX, the cursor > placement is paramount. When the cursor moves, there needs to be a reliable > way to know where the cursor is located in a 25/80 frame of reference rather > than the distance in inches or pixles. At this point, I have not been able > to remedy this problem using the settings available to me. > > The next problem is properly speaking screen changes. Right now, if new > data comes to the screen, eather serially from the bottom of the screen or > placed elsewhere, there is no way to know if anything comes to the screen. > Where this is an issue is when one is using a curses(cursor motion and > minipulation) program in unix. An example of tha program is "vi". Vi is > the base editor used in most unix systems. This editor is what is called a > full screen editor. This means that a file opened with vi will have a > representation of a portion of the file in a 80 by 25 display. There is a > status line at the bottom that is very important to utilize vi. Whenever > anything changes, one has to practically review the entire screen to be sure > the desired change happened.. > > There are a few more things that will need addressing, but, this would be an > awsome start. My experience with programming is 'C' language, shell > programming and perl on a unix platform. I have zero experience with > windows programming. If anyone wants to help with this, I would be glad to > help as much as possible. > > Warm Regards.. Joe Lanier > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and > your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending > your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can > be searched through and sorted using the search > form at the bottom of the page. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body > of the message. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [email protected] If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
