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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: how do I tell the size of a pseudoterm window?
Message-ID: <9100@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 Dec 88 15:27:32 GMT
References: <2081@vedge.UUCP> <6766@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <564@auspex.UUCP> <577@auspex.UUCP> <964@vsi.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <964@vsi.COM> friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>No no no no.  Layers are like BSD job control :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) 

Not at all.  You must be thinking of so-called "shell layers" based
on sxt pseudo-devices.  Guy and I were discussing real layers as
used on descendants of Rob Pike's Blit terminal (e.g. AT&T 5620, 615,
620, 630).