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That's a good point. There used to be built-in help for almost every thing in CDE. That's how I learnt all about using it. It even had some ability to create GU
by satya71 7y ago
That's a good point. There used to be built-in help for almost every thing in CDE. That's how I learnt all about using it. It even had some ability to create GUIs using the Bourne Shell[1].
[1] http://cdesktopenv.sourceforge.net/man1/dtksh.html http://cdesktopenv.sourceforge.net/man1/dtksh.html
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoThat's sweet:) A little like the premise of zenity, but skimming that manpage it looks far more powerful. Albeit, harder to use, since it's pretty much directly exposing raw(-ish?) X & motif APIs in ksh.
- mhd 7y agoksh itself was pretty powerful, and some of its programming features still haven't found their way into bash or zsh. But yeah, the API is a rather direct translation of the somewhat verbose Intrinsics/Motif interface. Compare that to its contemporary Tcl/Tk.