Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!ctrsol!emory!phssra
From: phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Odd Size Terminal Emulator
Summary: uw is better
Message-ID: <4286@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 23 Aug 89 13:37:51 GMT
References: <13172@well.UUCP> <241@ualtamts.BITNET> <2526@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: phssra@emory.UUCP (Scott Robert Anderson)
Organization: Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta
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In article <2526@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> straka@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (richard.j.straka) writes:
>In article <241@ualtamts.BITNET> userDBUG@ualtamts.BITNET (Dan Berry) writes:
>>In article <13172@well.UUCP>, taylor@limbo.intuitive.com (Dave Taylor) writes:
>>>...
>>>What I'd like to get is a terminal emulator that will allow me to create
>>>arbitrary size terminals -- at least 30 - 40 lines rather than 25 !!
>>>Ideally it should be emulating an HP terminal or the ole' standard VT100.
>
>The old, standard Versaterm supports draggable screen sizes....
>Just remember to make a new termcap/terminfo if you are talking to a UNIX(R)
>box to take advantage of the extra size when editing / ...

You should look into the uw program, available at an archive near you.  In
addition to giving you an arbitrarily-sized screen, this program gives you up
to *seven* arbitrarily-sized screens, each running a different a shell or
program.  And since it's a UNIX-specific program, it knows how to tell your
shell what its window size is, so you don't have to fiddle around with termcap.
I routinely run 38-line shells on my 13" monitor.

Caveat:  it only supports ansi, vt52, adm-31, and tek 4010 terminal modes.  The
ansi is close to vt100, but I've found it to be a little flaky.

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