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echo: binkd
to: Bjrn Felten
from: andrew clarke
date: 2021-06-20 21:09:00
subject: dumb terminal

19 Jun 21 12:45:44, Bj”rn Felten wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 BF>    I agree though with the previous writer, I'd love a GUI program that
 BF> can sort out all the different information in the log file and present it
 BF> in a humanly readable way.
 BF> 
 BF>    I started out once (in BP7), but came to the conclusion that it
 BF> would be a Windows only program, so no use to most of the other binkd users.  8-)

Have a look at Free Pascal. It uses BP7 syntax and can build for Windows, OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD & MacOS.

There is a CRT unit that can be used for text mode CUI apps, to display an output similar to BinkleyTerm's, though another option would be to just to output ANSI codes directly and let the Windows/OS2/*NIX terminal interpret them.

For cross-platform GUI apps there's the Free Pascal GUI toolkit, fpGUI. Or you can use Lazarus, which is basically an open source version of Borland Delphi.

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