Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!icdoc!qmc-cs!flash From: flash@qmc-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Using A Macintosh As A UNIX Terminal Summary: uw _and_ dv Message-ID: <534@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> Date: 11 Jul 88 10:54:09 GMT References: <374@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> <15200029@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: root@cs.qmc.ac.uk Reply-To: sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk Organization: EE Dept, Queen Mary College, U London E1-4NS Lines: 27 or_perhaps_Reply_to: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk In article <15200029@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > >>I am looking for advice in using a Macintosh as a remote terminal >>to a UNIX system. > >You owe it to yourself to take a look at John Bruner's ``uw''. It gives >you a multiwindowing terminal emulator to your UNIX system, over a single >serial connection. It is also free. Yes, it's insanely great, but the Mac end of it in unMac-like. If you want to program the Unix machine, you'll want a Mac interface (CUT and paste, double-clicking, and inserting in the middle of a word you just mis-typed.) For this get dumb virtue (it uses the Unix end of uw): dumb virtue . . . "The shell programmer's little friend" v1.1, copyright Kevin Eric Saunders 1986 License: $20 per copy (+$10 for latest version, +7% NYS residents). 721 W. Court Street Ithaca, NY 14850 Version 1.0 was posted a year or so ago; avoid it, it crashed most of the time. 1.1 isn't as solid as uw, but if you need a multi-window Mac terminal, it's the only way to go. From: flash@ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan) Reply-To: sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk or_perhaps_Reply_to: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk