X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Rugxulo Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Scripting and Text UI Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 04:02:12 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 32 Message-ID: <9f03b55e-9691-4f9f-a6e5-d3d11530a147@m13g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> References: <4fa44164$0$2624$892e0abb AT auth DOT newsreader DOT octanews DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.13.115.246 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1336216185 24908 127.0.0.1 (5 May 2012 11:09:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 11:09:45 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: m13g2000yqc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.13.115.246; posting-account=p5rsXQoAAAB8KPnVlgg9E_vlm2dvVhfO User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.630.0 Safari/534.16,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2167 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q45BF2RU019617 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hi, I've not tried what you're asking, but I can suggest a few. On May 4, 3:51 pm, Bob Tanner wrote: > > I'm looking for some advise regarding what scripting languages have a > text UI that will work on FreeDOS. > > I'm partial to python but I'll work in any scripting language. The best (only?) DJGPP port of Python is here: http://www.caddit.net/pythond/ > I've looked at Turbo Vision, tkinter,  and fltk but none seem to be > scripting toolkits. SETEDIT uses his own slisp, IIRC, for scripting. > I'm looking for a simple language so assist users in editing > configuration files and I really don't want to step down into C or C++. > > Any advice? The simplest scripting language seems to be Lua, and it's already been ported by Juan: http://na.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/djgpp/beta/v2tk/lua520b.zip Or you could use (Regina) REXX, e.g. Rexx/Curses, which works with PDcurses: http://rexxcurses.sourceforge.net/index.html