Re: The Promise of Forth

On May 8, 7:12=A0am, Thomas Pornin <por...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> According to Anton Ertl <an...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
>
> > However, we are prepared to accept a well-designed fix.
>
> Although the "Linux way" is to use ncurses (not that ncurses is
> simple or lightweight; but core utilities use ncurses, which means
> that whatever ncurses does is properly configured; otherwise, the
> system would be unbearable), there is a simpler and more immediate
> solution which is: use screen.
>
> screen is a terminal emulator; it runs within a terminal (any kind of
> terminal which has the proper terminfo capabilities) and emulates VT100
> terminals in which applications can be run and use VT100 escape
> sequences. screen can run several terminals as "tabs" and has a handful
> of cool features, including keyboard-based copy&paste and the ability to
> "detach" (i.e. you can logout without shutting down your applications,
> and then recover them after logging again on the machine).
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 --Thomas Pornin

Would Telnet be a better console interface for gForth than the
standard "DOS window"? Telnet clients that emulate VT100 are easy to
get and one could connect to gForth whether it's running on the same
PC or on the other side of the world.

--Brad