> > can I easily simulate B3 in box? (I can look this one up in the man)
>
> Not without changing the source code.
>
> One alternative is to make your "Next" program
> replace the current window contents instead of
> creating a new one.
This is what I realized (I think I posted a version of a script in a
followup posting. since then I learned and the script changed :-)
I have been wondering if it might be useful to have a 'clean'
version of a replacement script ('repl'?) in /acme/bin next
to 'new' -- if only as example for those looking for them --
my "Next" then only has to come up with the right
file name which it then passes to ``repl''.
Today I used it, and with lucidasans.13 it was pretty ok.
Only thing was that I mounted the text files via u9fs from
a sun that mounts via nfs from the central file server,
so updating the window was less quick that when all would
have been local.
I had intended to also embed commands to raise (vnc) windows
containing demo stuff but did not have time for that.
(actually, we were discussing tool integration, but the nice
integration on the presentation system was likely missed by
the audience... one of the more interesting parts of the
discussion was on how to connect tools or tool components
that have to interact with each other - typical case in our
world would be a tool component capable of (on demand)
unfolding (exploring) a state space, and a tool compoent
actually traversing the state space - I would be tempted
to make those into two separate programs and connect them
on the shell level (which may be a bit too loosely
coupled for the real world, think tools like spin?).
other suggestions were to have some kind of common
(library, oo?) infrastructure on which (in which)
all is built - and thus have (possibility) of much tighter
connection - nevertheless, the idea of being forced to
use a particular library/language infrastructure does
not sound too attractive, and it will not work with
external tools outside our control. oh well, we ran out
of time before we ran out of discussion, we'll see...)
Axel.
