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From: edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Coupla questions
Keywords: mscreen, shl
Message-ID: <1989Nov14.035739.13517@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 14 Nov 89 03:57:39 GMT
References: <1989Oct31.161007.25286@rpi.edu> <300002@hpspcoi.HP.COM>
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In article <300002@hpspcoi.HP.COM> darko@hpspcoi.HP.COM (David Arko) writes:
>
>There is also multiscreens for serial terminals.  To use this you
>have to have your term type entry in the file /etc/mscreencap
>and then you invoke the capability with the command 'mscreen -n'
>where 'n' is the number if multiscreens desired.  Then you filp
>back and forth between screens by Shift+F1, Shift+Fx...  Depending
>on your terminals capablities this will either clear the screen
>between switches or use the terminals memory to store each screen.
>This is a very vague discription and I will refer you to 'man mscreen'.
>
>This is sort of a poor man's windowing system.

And for those even poorer who don't have a serial terminal with
screen memory, we have "shl".  Shell layers predates SCO's mscreen
implementation by a couple of rev's (it first appeared in 2.2.1 or
2.2.3, it was a while ago).  mscreen requires a terminal capable of
remembering the contents of the ptty's in order to do it's magic.
shl works quite well without this ability.  While it's not quite as
pretty, I remember being very grateful when it first was implimented.
I'll not try to repeat the man page here, but leave that as an
exercise for those interested.

>--David Arko
>darko@hpspcio.hp.com

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