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Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone
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I think rio is probably not useful, but a purely text based
environtment isn't interesting either...

        -eric

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 25, 2009, at 9:53 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:

> Also, we obviously cannot use rio, unless we greatly restrict the
> user's visibility. Unless we provide zooming?
>
> Maybe a text-based environment that runs exclusively off rc, sam,
> acme, etc. with the standard keyboard at the bottom:
>
> <Exit                drawterm      Commands>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> cpu% cat message
> this is a message
> cpu% cp message /mnt/term/whatever
> cpu% cat /mnt/term/whatever/message
> this is a message
> cpu% ftpfs -m/n/andlabs andlabs.com >
> /dev/null
> cpu% cp message /n/andlabs
> ------------------------------------------------------
> (apple keyboard goes here)
>
>
> Hitting the Commands button would yield a menu to the likes of the
> rio Button 2 menu (cut, paste, snarf, plumb, send).
>
>