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  • Feasibility of calling standard curses program

    From Arelor@VERT to All on Thu Jun 11 12:00:07 2020
    Hello there!

    Just a matter of curiosity. Is it feasible to take a standard linux program with an
    curses interface and make it available as an External program for a Synchronet instance? For example, an early Rogue game.

    There are docs about FOSSIL drivers and such but I would not know where to beging
    looking in order to interface Synchronet with an arbitrary terminal program (or what
    modifications the terminal program would need).
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Arelor on Fri Jun 12 10:14:17 2020
    Re: Feasibility of calling standard curses program
    By: Arelor to All on Thu Jun 11 2020 12:00 pm

    Hello there!

    Just a matter of curiosity. Is it feasible to take a standard linux program with an curses interface and make it available as an External program for a Synchronet instance? For example, an early Rogue game.

    Yes.

    There are docs about FOSSIL drivers and such but I would not know where to beging looking in order to interface Synchronet with an arbitrary terminal program (or what modifications the terminal program would need).

    You'd want to use standard I/O redirection: http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:door:index

    digital man

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  • From Arelor@VERT to Digital Man on Fri Jun 12 12:01:29 2020
    Re: Feasibility of calling standard curses program
    By: Digital Man to Arelor on Fri Jun 12 2020 10:14 am

    You'd want to use standard I/O redirection: http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:door:index

    digital man

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