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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Please help me with finding source code for terminal emulator.
Date: 5 Oct 1996 17:11:21 GMT
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fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND) wrote:

> The most interesting is probably XTERM, from the X-Window
> distribution. It's free, and graphics-based, which means you can port
> it to any other environment.

Ick.


xc/programs/xterm/README:

                        Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here


This is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution.  It was one of
the first "serious" programs ported, and still has a lot of historical baggage.
[...]

and xc/programs/xterm/main.c:

/*
 *                               W A R N I N G
 * 
 * If you think you know what all of this code is doing, you are
 * probably very mistaken.  There be serious and nasty dragons here.
 *
 * This client is *not* to be taken as an example of how to write X
 * Toolkit applications.  It is in need of a substantial rewrite,
 * ideally to create a generic tty widget with several different parsing
 * widgets so that you can plug 'em together any way you want.  Don't
 * hold your breath, though....
 */
[...]

Try again. ;-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)