Re: [Dorset] OT(ish): IDL

2011-10-12 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 20:16 +0100, Terry Coles wrote: So how do Unix/Linux progams export their interfaces? In MS VisualStudio, I can click on a function or method and right-click to get the interface. The free desktop way of doing this is D-Bus. The interface description for your D-Bus

Re: [Dorset] OT(ish): IDL

2011-10-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, On Tuesday 11 Oct 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote: The textual IDL file would be my first thought, or are you thinking there's a way to interrogate a peer to determine the interface it offers at run-time? AIUI, the IDL file is compiled into a 'type library' which is somehow

Re: [Dorset] OT(ish): IDL

2011-10-12 Thread Terry Coles
Ralph, Since yesterday, I've followed up on the links you provided and had 'long and meanigful' discussions with the guys who maintain the Standard. As a result, I'm a bit more clued up than I was yesterday evening. On Wednesday 12 Oct 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote: AIUI, the IDL file is

[Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread Terry Coles
Paul at work (he who turns up at the Meetings) asked me if I was aware of a Terminal program in Linux that understood ANSII codes. I've never had to do this, so I said I'd ask on the list. Any ideas? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next

Re: [Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, Paul at work (he who turns up at the Meetings) asked me if I was aware of a Terminal program in Linux that understood ANSII codes. I've never had to do this, so I said I'd ask on the list. ANSI fed into DEC's VT terminals that xterm(1) copied and all the other terminal emulators

Re: [Dorset] OT(ish): IDL

2011-10-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, In fact, IDL is separate from RPC. IDL is simply about the way in which you write you API apparently. The Standard uses it so everyone has open access to the API calls, regardless of platform. Right, it defines how data maps to bits and what functions there are that can handle it.

Re: [Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday 12 Oct 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote: ANSI fed into DEC's VT terminals that xterm(1) copied and all the other terminal emulators since then, e.g. gnome-terminal, so xterm or similar should handle the ANSI escape sequences he needs. (I've found gnome-terminal lacking in a few but

Re: [Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, I'm sure he would have tried that. I may have been guitly of oversimplfying the question; I think he might be trying to talk to another device over a serial link, just as you would have done with a VT 100. I was going to ask if that's what he was doing but thought better of it.

Re: [Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread Bob Dunlop
On Wed, Oct 12 at 05:48, Terry Coles wrote: I'm sure he would have tried that. I may have been guitly of oversimplfying the question; I think he might be trying to talk to another device over a serial link, just as you would have done with a VT 100. Can you use gnome- terminal or xterm

Re: [Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread Terry Coles
Thanks Bob and Ralph for the answers. I'll pass it on. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-11-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively:

Re: [Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread John Cooper
On 12/10/11 16:37, Terry Coles wrote: Paul at work (he who turns up at the Meetings) asked me if I was aware of a Terminal program in Linux that understood ANSII codes. I've never had to do this, so I said I'd ask on the list. Any ideas? I have used minicom to connect to my Sun E250 server's

Re: [Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 12/10/11 17:48, Terry Coles wrote: I'm sure he would have tried that. I may have been guitly of oversimplfying the question; I think he might be trying to talk to another device over a serial link, just as you would have done with a VT 100. Can you use gnome- terminal or xterm to do that?