On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Avril Hardy wrote:
> I am very new to the Haskell environment and to this list. I have
> just started studying Haskell at University and have had problems
> downloading Haskell or Hugs to my PC; I wondered whether it had
> anything to do with the options set in the ini file in the Installation
> guide html.
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Nothing wrong with your setup. Standard version of Hugs
for Linux does not have menus. Your installation
at work must have been modified somehow from sources
to give you those extra perks. Hugs in Linux uses
the "ncurses" library when "readline" support is
compiled in. "Readline" gives you line editing and history
capability. I guess someone at your university
took advantage of ncurses and went one step further
to add menu support. And if both versions for Linux
and NT look similar he/she must have done quite
a good job.
I do not run Windows or NT version of Hugs, but I have
seen somewhere a picture of windows interface with menus.
I think it is called WinHugs. Look at the section
"Special items for Win 32 platform", at
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/PacSoft/projects/Hugs/downloading.htm
But it does not mean that your menus at home will be
exactly the same as those at work.
Jan
P.S. Since I am already standing on a soap box..
If anyone out there uses Lynx and have trouble reading
Haskell Companion in its frames and tables version -
I recommend little known but crafty Lynx mutant from Czech
Republic, called "Links". This is another good example what
you can do with ncurses. Escape key shows you a menu and
all the setup is menu based. This package is missing some
features (like bookmarks) but the basics -- including
image support for external viewers -- are well
implemented.
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/vyplody/links/
