[532] in Zephyr_Comments
Re: Multiple zephyrgrams in a scrollable window?
vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Feb 20 09:38:24 1992
Yes, jik, you are right, console is *not* a toolkit program. It would serve
just fine as a place to dump "zwgc -ttymode" output... well, except for
two problems that I can think of...
The first problem is that it has a limit of 16K for messages. This is
probably more than enough for most people, and more than they would have
set in an xterm, for example. So, actually, this is probably more of a
drawback than a feature, because you don't want to have all that hanging
around, I dunno.
The second is that zwgc -ttymode uses xterm escape sequences to do bolding
and stuff in a normal xterm, so they show up wrong in the console. Actually,
you can get around that by setting your "term" to something else first, so
that's not that big a deal.
So, if anybody really wants to use this method, I'd suggest:
(set term=ansi; zwgc -ttymode -nofork | console &)
You may or may not want to add the "-notimestamp" option to "console"...
It might be interesting to implement a real browser using the combined
code of console and the current zwgc, at some point... hmm...
-C.
