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Alexander Malmberg <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: Terminal.app
System name: terminal
Type: 2

Description:
Terminal.app is a terminal emulator for GNUstep (and OpenStep in general, in 
theory). It currently emulates a \'linux\' terminal, and does it well since the 
terminal emulation code is based on linux\'s console code. The design easily 
allows adding support for more terminals, but so far there are no others. 
Scrollback, cutting and pasting, colors, and keyboard handling is supported.

It also provides services to other GNUstep(/OpenStep) applications. (Services 
are a way in which GNUstep apps extend each other. Somewhat simplified, using a 
service automatically cuts the current selection from the app you\'re in, sends 
it to the service provider (starting it if necessary), and pastes back the 
result.) It is fully configurable, and comes with a small but nice set of 
default services, eg. \'Define word\' (will run dict on a selected string and 
display the results in a terminal window), \'Wrap to 72 columns\' (pipes the 
selection through fmt).

It\'s stable, but not as robust as it could be. Everything can be configured 
from the GUI. Things to improve or fix include font handling, handling of 
different character sets, robustness, remembering open windows, and general 
maintenance.

It already exists and you can download the latest distribution at 
http://w1.423.telia.com/~u42308495/alex/Terminal-0.9.1.tar.gz


Other Software Required:
GNUstep (http://www.gnustep.org/ or http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnustep/)

Other Comments:
I\'ve used cvs locally when developing this, so it would be good if the 
existing repository could be moved to the new one (to preserve history and 
stuff).

The preferred capitalization is \'Terminal\', but the system name seemed to 
lower-case itself. It would be nice to have this reflected in the system name, 
although it isn\'t that important.