[clean-list] Some questions from a new user

[Fergus Henderson]

On 19-Nov-2000, Paul Moore <gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> From: Fergus Henderson [mailto:fjh@cs.mu.oz.au]
> > On 16-Nov-2000, Paul Moore <gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > 2. Console-mode programs like e.icl run fine, but when
> > > they finish, they pause and set the console title to say
> > > "press enter to close". This is obviously useful for
> > > console-mode programs which are run via a double-click,
> > > but for programs run from the command line, this is
> > > very annoying. Is it possible to set a compile flag
> > > (somewhere) which disables this?
> >
> > Another example of the advantages of open-source software...
> 
> Sorry if I have missed your point here - the necessary sources of Clean
> which would allow me to fix this aren't available, as I understand it?

No, they're not.  As I understand it, the Clean team have said that
they'll make the next version of Clean open-source, but have not yet
delivered on that promise.

> If they are, I'd consider looking at fixing it (but I have almost no
> free time, so I may not be able to do so...)

If the sources were available, a quick `grep' for "press enter to
close" would no doubt find the part of the code which does this.
If there was an option to disable it, then it would most likely be
clear from the source code.  If not, it probably wouldn't be difficult
to add one (provided that the process of just building Clean from
source wasn't too difficult).

Even if you yourself didn't have enough free time to do it, open
source would increase the chances that there was someone reading this
mailing list who had access to the source code, too much time on their
hands, and nothing better to do but answer questions on the Clean
mailing list ;-)

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