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From: stuart@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (S. D. Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Odd Size Terminal Emulator
Summary: uw is BSD specific
Message-ID: <2670@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 89 13:15:13 GMT
References: <13172@well.UUCP> <241@ualtamts.BITNET> <2526@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <4286@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Organization: The Sage Hovel, Wheaton, IL
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In article <4286@emory.mathcs.emory.edu), phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott R. Anderson) 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 !!
[...]
) 
) 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
[...]
Don't forget to tell the people that this is BERKELEY (BSD) specific.
In won't run on SYSTEM V (well, not until you're running SVR4, which
isn't released from Sun and AT&T yet).

I would second the vote for VersaTerm (4.0) - it resizes windows, it works
GREAT in the background, and it automatically zooms to a small window
(You can determine the size) when you switch applications in MultiFinder.

Stuart 
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