W1r2 - great!

["Chris Herborth" <chrish@qnx.com>]

I've been playing with TeSche's W1r2 for a couple of days now... quite a
capable little window manager!  Of course, the documentation is a little
sparse, but I've already written a small program to display an IMG file
in a window... once I figure out what the x0,y0 and x1,y1 parameters are
for w_putblock(), I'll release the code.

With W running, wclock, wload, and a wterm with bash in it, I can:

1) run GNU EMACS

2) compile my little wshowimg program (~70k binary, -mbaserel) with
   gcc 2.5.8

This is a 4M machine, too.  Suck on that, X.  :-)

I have noticed a couple of strange things:

1) my MicroEMACS 3.12 port won't run, it says "the screen is too small"

2) GNU EMACS runs, but makes the cursor flash _really_ fast; the status
   line, which should be reverse-video, is underlined (so I suspect a
   small bug in the TERMINFO and/or TERMCAP entry for this)

3) Elvis makes the cursor flash _really_ fast; I think I'll hack the
   wterm source so it *never* flashes

Quite a good job though!  I'm very impressed by this little GUI.

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