Date   : Sat, 09 Oct 1982 14:14:24-EDT (Sat)
From   : Rick Conn <rconn@BRL>
Subject: Re: What is CONFIG.C?

        Both CONFIG and TINIT are programs designed for  the  TVI
950  CRT terminal.  CONFIG is used to interactively specify how a
user wants his terminal to be programmed, allowing him to  select
between  five different cursors, various terminal attributes such
as key click, the text of his user line, and the text  programmed
into each of the 11 function keys.  It also has the capability of
writing the selections out to disk in a data  file  that  can  be
later  read by CONFIG or by TINIT, whose function is to read such
a data file and program the terminal (TINIT=Terminal INIT).

        Since CONFIG and TINIT are written in  C  and  are  quite
modular  in their design, it is not too difficult to modify these
programs to work for  other  intelligent  terminals,  such  as  a
H19/H88/H89 or VT100.

        In use, I typically maintain several .CFG files.  One  is
the  standard, general-purpose configuration file, one is for do-
ing software development in C (programs the function keys to  in-
voke the compiler, etc), one is for doing software development in
PASCAL, and one is for doing  software  development  in  assembly
language  (with different function keys invoking different assem-
blers).  There is also a configuration file for doing  text  pro-
cessing.

                                        Rick