Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!ditto From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: how do I tell the size of a pseudoterm window? Keywords: layers xt Message-ID: <5445@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 6 Dec 88 05:11:57 GMT References: <2081@vedge.UUCP> <6766@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <564@auspex.UUCP> <9047@smoke.BRL.MIL> <577@auspex.UUCP> Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 26 In article <577@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes: > (I presume you can, under layers, somehow arrange > to run a program on a machine other than the one to which > your layers terminal is connected and have it interact > with layers just as if it were running on that machine; if > not, X11 does a *better* job than layers does in that > instance.) I disagree. An X11 application can not do its display on a machine to which it is not connected, either; I think your complaint about layers is more about the fact that layers is usually run over a direct serial link, and X is usually run over a (multiple-machine) network. Both systems require a virtual 8-bit flow-controlled data path between the display server and the application, and I think they are very similar in that respect. I think the layers protocol is a bit intertwined with the underlying "xt" protocol, so it may have a slight deficiency there (experts, please correct as needed). -- -=] Ford [=- "The number of Unix installations (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) has grown to 10, with more expected." ford@kenobi.cts.com - The Unix Programmer's Manual, ...!sdcsvax!crash!elgar!ford 2nd Edition, June, 1972. ditto@cbmvax.commodore.com