[CS-FSLUG] Terminate WAS: College / University

[Alan Trick]

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:37 -0500, Ritchie, Josiah S. wrote:
> > -----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? 

Pretty much. My main reason was the cross-platform compatibility because
all the computers at school run MS Windows (except my Prof's laptop).