Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn 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. Lines: 7 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).