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From: dankg@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: MacLayers (what and where)
Summary: MacLayers is multi-window session manager
Keywords: Maclayers
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Date: 10 Jun 90 21:46:51 GMT
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In article <1307@hedora.cs.utexas.edu> werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) writes:

>	MacLayers is a multi-window terminal emulator for the Macintosh
>	to be used with some UNIX-mainframes.  it has some very nice
>	features, such as downloading in the background.
>
>	you can find the files with FTP on RASCAL.ICS.UTEXAS.EDU
>	in directory mac/communications/MacLayers

	You can also get a copy from sumex-aim.stanford.edu (The most
famous ftp site for Mac users).  sumex-aim is also a place you should try
very first.  maclayers is at /info-mac/comm.
	To run maclayers, you need to do two things:  Download a copy
of Maclayers frontend to your mac and compile server on unix site.
after both are done, you logon with maclayers.   So far you have one
window.  Then type in "layers" from command shell.  That invokes maclayers
server.  After that you can open other sessions with "layer [commands]".
it's exactly like "xterm -e command" on Xwindows.  So while on modem,
you can use emacs on one window, rn on other, and shell on other, and more.
	Unfortunately, modem connection must be 8-bit.  For some reasons
it doesn't work on 7-bit connections (mine, too <;_;>) on current version.

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