RE: Open Source menu system

["Mark Villa" <as400-4-me@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have not read all the threads, excuse me if views already presented.

I compiled an seu like xedit-like freeware version for AIX in C and it
worked great. I don't think binaries were available. AIX was pretty new at
the time.
It was a "your on your own" solution without the open-source team/committee
part IIRC.
My only purpose was that I could not live with vi.

I don't think I had too many places to go to for help.

http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/

Good luck on emulating the iSeries code prompts.

My thought:
If you go the opposite way from open-source, you serve a different purpose I
think but also eventually go to an embedded system.

I don't want my 747 flight running open source.

I don't want to stand in line at Wal-Mart unless their running IBM POS.
IBM POS is a little more obscure than OS/400 and rock solid.
and we (iSeries folks) push the obscurity benefits every chance we get.

With few exceptions, I see no freeware/open source that is worth much more
if you consider everything and imagine your future is hinging on this
decision.

I see it is a great training/testing/prototype method.
In the old days, we did not waste time with impossibly cryptic .CONF files
but focused on the business (and storage dumps).


Mark Villa in Summerville SC