Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sunybcs!boulder!hao!noao!mcdsun!mcdchg!usenet From: usenet@mcdchg.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix Subject: Multi-Window Terminal Emulator Message-ID: <2737@mcdchg.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 14:26:28 EST Article-I.D.: mcdchg.2737 Posted: Thu Dec 3 14:26:28 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 19:03:38 EST Sender: usenet@mcdchg.UUCP Organization: University of Minnesota, Computer Science Lines: 32 Approved: usenet@mcdchg.UUCP [Note that this article is cross-posted between comp.sys.ibm.pc and comp.unix, a moderated newsgroup. Please be aware of this and make sure that replies are going to Mr. Schmitz. Followups that go to comp.unix may be summarized by the moderator if there's a big response. I'd encourage Mr. Schmitz to submit a summary of the replies he gets. Also, I believe that such a thing exists internally to AT&T for their PC 6300, using the same UNIX interface as the 5620 DMD terminal (layers), but I may be mistaken. -mod] I'm dreaming of a multi-window terminal emulation system for a PC connected via modem to a Unix system. The user sitting at the PC would be able to maintain a terminal session in each of the windows, switching back and forth between them as desired. Ideally, multiple windows could be displayed simultaneously and the contents of a window could be updated if output occurred in it even while input was being typed to a different window. The idea is for something with the feel of Suntools. As I imagine it, such an emulation system would need to consist of a program to run on the PC and a program to run under Unix, forking off processes for each of the windows in the emulation. Does anybody know of anything resembling this? Any comments on either my dream or my idea of how it might work? -- Tom Schmitz ARPA: schmitz@zeus.cs.umn.edu 2111 21st Avenue South UUCP: ...!rutgers!umn-cs!schmitz Minneapolis, MN 55404 CSNET: schmitz%zeus%umn-cs.arpa@relay.cs.net (612) 340-1855 -- Ron Heiby usenet@mcdchg.UUCP Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix