Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!udel!rminnich
From: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Unix Windows for Amiga
Message-ID: <776@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 09:47:02 EST
Article-I.D.: louie.776
Posted: Mon Dec  7 09:47:02 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Dec-87 12:30:40 EST
References: <16843@topaz.rutgers.edu> <1969@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Delaware
Lines: 22

In article <1969@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) writes:
>In article <16843@topaz.rutgers.edu>, Mike Carrol ask some questions about Unix
>Windows, or UW.  This is the second time I've seen this software mentioned on
>the net.  Can anybody tell me what it is?  I use Unix quite frequently via
>dialup from my Amiga, and this UW sounds intriguing.
   first off, uw is real nice. You can have up to seven amiga windows
all talking to their own process on a host machine. The seven is a 
very hard limit as the protocol encodes a channel number in three bits, and
channel zero is a control channel. This program was originally done 
on a  MAC. Most MAC users i know do not use it much, since they do not
like to turn their whole machine over to terminal emulation. Of course
that is not a problem on the Amiga. The source can be had via ftp
from asc.purdue.edu for the Amiga end. I got the Unix end from somewhere
at stanford (su-score comes to mind) via anonymous ftp.
If you have trouble with these let me now and i will put uw in 
louie.udel.edu's ftp directory.
   Anyway, uw is nice, i use it. My local unix-side version has been hacked to
directly support an Amiga termcap entry rather than the strange 'ansi' 
one that comes standard. 
ron
-- 
ron (rminnich@udel.edu)