[COLUG] Dosbox serial ports: Rethinking the problem

[jep200404]

OK Charlie, it's your turn to describe the functional requirements. 

Charlie wrote:

> I have a few programs which I wish to run under Linux which are 
> written in Quick Basic. 

This was discussed more at lunch, where it was revealed that the 
Quick Basic program was written in-house, and the source code is 
available (on-line no less!). The author was also at lunch. 

What the program does is not terribly complicated. 
The more that Larry Howell and I thought about it, 
the more we thought it was time to rethink the whole mess, 
to start over from scratch, starting with the functional 
requirements. 

One requirement was stated: 

1. Must be GUI. 

      Larry and I concurred that much of the functionality 
      could be done in little shell scripts, but Charlie 
      objected that the people who are going to use it 
      need a GUI. Of course, Larry and I smiled and said 
      to add a GUI wrapper around the shell scripts. 

Charlie and the author have had a few days to think about this 
stuff, so now it's get started on the functional requirements. 
Release early, release often. 

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Jumping to implementation, I'd hack this a little bit at a time 
with little (under 5 line) shell scripts. Some of the work might 
require some thing written in C or Perl. Expect might be handy. 
Once all the little scripts are working fine, I'd add the GUI 
wrapper.