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From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Important new program: cleanit.c
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Date: 10 Oct 89 17:59:17 GMT
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ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>Personally, I think a far better and more elgant solution would be virtual
>screens. You simulate N terminals on one.  When you hit ALT-n, the contents
>of the screen and replaced by that of terminal , and the keyboard is attached
>to terminal n.  In effect, you are timesharing the one screen into n
>windows.  Again, the trick is localize everything so that there are no tentacles
>all over the place.  It won't be easy.

I wanted to investigate adding this to Minix one point, because I was
so pleased with the functionality I could get with it on SCO Xenix.
The only thing that is a problem is that the human has to copy text
between windows, which is a pain sometimes, but not worth the cruft of
trying to automate it.

Rob T
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Rob Thurlow - Expatriate Canadian                      thurlow@convex.com
"From the heart of 'The Friendship State'"