Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!whuts!homxb!genesis!hotlr!anumb!adh From: adh@anumb.UUCP (a.d.hay) Newsgroups: att.sys.unixpc,comp.sys.att Subject: how can i add more windows to a unix-pc? Keywords: /dev/w* /etc/lddrv/wind* /etc/master Message-ID: <355@anumb.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 12:29:45 GMT Reply-To: adh@anumb.UUCP (a.d.hay) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - MV Lines: 20 i'm trying to convert omega from curses to windows. i've got it to compile and run (finding numerous curses->tam compatibility omissions in tam.h in the process), but omega has a TREMENDOUS appetite for windows -- 16, plus 2 arrays! (i haven't even looked up the size of the arrays). a lot of the windows look like gratuitous use of curses, so i think i can cut the number down a lot. but i also thought of attacking the other end of the equation -- the number of /dev/wXX devices. i have mknoded 20 additional windows (/dev/w13 - /dev/w32) but i can't access them. there's a magic number in /etc/master (NWINDOWS), but does it do anything? do i have to reboot to make it take effect? or is the limit hard-coded into /unix or /etc/lddrv/wind? -- Andrew Hay +------------------------------------------------------+ Holistic Specialist | I was reading my name on the glass of my office door | AT&T-BL Ward Hill MA | and listening to the staccato of rain on my desktop- | mvuxq.att.com!adh +------------------------------------------------------+