Sorry for the delayed reply I have been away for a few days.
Anand Kumria wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 04:43:32PM +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote:
> > Having created a Python addon floppy to go with my tomsrtbt system I
> > thought I would see If I could run X and thus be able to experiment with
> > Tkinter. I have managed to get it working except that the backspace,
> > delete and arrow keys are not working. e.g. instead of deleting,
> > backspace prints ^[[3~.
>
> Sounds interesting. How did easy did you find it 'reverse engineering'
> the bootdisk?
I don't think I could dignify my efforts as _any_ kind of
"engineering". All that I have done so far is rather inelegant to say
the least but I could write it up if anyone is interested. I think a
new mini or micro distribution is the way to go but I will make that the
subject of a new thread, possibly on SLUG-CHAT.
> > The whole /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 "tree" has been copied from a working
> > Debian 1.3 system.
>
> Hmm, Debian 1.3 is/rather old. Apparently there has been some see-sawing
> with Debian and how it should behave with xterm in different versions.
>
> Do you have access to a later version of the X heirarchy to tree?
Yes but I was trying to use stuff that would be compatable with
everything else. (2.0.x kernel libc5 etc)
> > BTW Tom has released a new version of tomsrtbt (1.7.250) but it hadn't
> > reached the aarnet mirror this morning. He has replaced some of the awk
> > scripts with lua scripts.
>
> Haven't heard of lua - care to explain?
>
> Anand
lua appears to be yet another scripting language. Tom Oehser intends
rewriting some or all of the mawk scripts on his disk with lua scripts.
So far he seems to have been able to add even more functionality to the
disk by doing this. The lua homepage is at
http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/
regards,
Ken
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