[CS-FSLUG] Terminate WAS: College / University

[Ritchie, Josiah S.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz [mailto:christiansource-
> bounces at ofb.biz] On Behalf Of Alan Trick
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:51 AM
> To: A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group.
> Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Terminate WAS: College / University
> 
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 08:24 -0500, Ritchie, Josiah S. wrote:
> > > [1] http://terminate.sf.net n.b. If you are actually interested in
> > > looking at the code, you probably want to checkout the stuff in
the
> > > subversion trunk as I haven't made a release in quite a while and
I
> > > think the svn stuff is pretty stable now.
> >
> > So what exactly is this program for? I couldn't quite make it out in
> the
> > description. Is it sort of like a macro creator for the Linux cli?
> The
> > site description didn't mean much to me.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > JSR/
> 
> Sorry, those description are quite poor, I've been meaning to update
> them.
> 
> Actually, it should work on Windows (>=NT) as well as any *nix
> terminal.
> 
> The biggest part of it is a cross-platform wrapper for sys.stdout and
> sys.stderr that supports ANSI display codes (formatted by the ANSI
> X3.64
> standard). It also allows you to move the cursor position around,
clear
> the screen or parts of it, set the terminal title, and a some other
> things.
> 
> It also has some other stuff like
> 
> - A function to create ANSI display codes
> 
> - A couple useful replacements for the builtin input() and raw_input()
> 
> - Some helper classes for readline tab completion (readline is only on
> *nix right now)
> 
> - A few widget classes like progress bars and spinners

So, if I understand this correctly, it is intended to make
cross-platform scripting easier through the standard implementation of
the above? 

JSR/