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)