Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: gcl-2.6.8pre on MAC OSX 10.2

[root]

> | The MAC server on which this was compiled did not have an X-windows
> | environment so it was not possible to compile and test Axiom Graphics
> | and the Hyperdoc browser. Also native MAC OSX10 apparently does not
> | have support for the pts virtual terminal interface so it is not
> | possible yet to compile clef (the replacement for readline).
> 
> I never quite understood why readline needs to be replaced.  Do you know?

clef knows more than readline. given an input file it can do smart
command line completion of things like domain names.

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