Subject: 
         ANNOUNCE: mongui.pl v. 1.0
   Date: 
         Tue, 7 Mar 2000 12:21:23 -0500
   From: 
         "Dan J Urist" <durist@evergreen-funds.com>
     To: 
         mon mailing list <mon@linux.kernel.org>




I've written the crude beginnings of a GUI configurator for mon using Perl/Tk.
As much as I like using m4, I work with people for whom a point-and-click
interface is easier to get started with.

The script is a bit long to post to the list; it can be downloaded from
http://world.std.com/~durist/perl/index.html. It requires a recent perl and
Tk800.018.

Large pieces are torn from mon itself and the help is verbatim from the mon man
page.

Known problems:
- There is some sort of malloc bug in Perl/Tk which will cause the script to
randomly dump core unless it's run under the perl debugger(!). The Perl/Tk
maintainers are working on this, but as a temporary kludge the script loads the
debugger before it starts, which makes it a bit slow, but apparently stable.
- Not quite all of the mon options are presently configurable; I started this
project a while ago and haven't kept up with the most recent revs of mon.
-Much of the interface design is preliminary and (probably) a bit clunky.
-I haven't thoroughly tested the output file format for consistency with mon.

Please let me know what you think. Design input, bug reports and most of all
patches would be greatly welcome.

Please reply to <durist@world.std.com>  (my current employment and this email
address ends as of 3/10 and I will be on vacation for the two weeks following
that, so please be patient if you send me email).

Dan Urist
durist@world.std.com