Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!scott From: scott@tab29.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Yelich (ODU) ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: uw (Unix Windows) Message-ID: Date: 9 Aug 90 14:26:57 GMT References: <1990Aug8.155752.12968@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1990Aug9.111433.5851@math.lsa.umich.edu> Sender: news@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov (USENET File Owner) Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 23665 Lines: 51 In-Reply-To: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu's message of 9 Aug 90 11:14:33 GMT In article <1990Aug8.155752.12968@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> schultzd@frith.uucp (David Schultz) writes: >I know that lots of people have gotten uw to work on their systems, >but I haven't. What do I need as far as systems to do it? any atari st system.... as far as I know! >1.) Will it work with a color monitor? No. Yes. I have done it. Try a ``mono'' emulator and then only use either of the two largest fonts. >2.) Will it work on a 512K Machine? Probably, should be no trouble at all. Yes. >3.) Will it work without a hard drive? (x2 DS/DD Drives) Sure, no problem. Yes. >4.) What EXACTLY is it useful for...? It's like a poor man's version of X. It multiplexes several tty sessions over a single serial line. It's good for editing many files in many windows, using vi on a host that doesn't have emacs. It's useful any time you want full terminal access to multiple applications simultaneously. It's great to play empire with your map in a window with a 4x7 or so font... and have this other window... a 12x4 (or 80x4) with a HUGH font... I mostly use it with either 4 80x24 4x7font windows... or overlapping 4 80x24 ?x13 font windows... The only problem is that is there is a LOT of stuff going to one window... well, the others are lock. In other words, don't monitor ACTIVE files... like watchlogs.... or worse, get someone upset at you in IRC and have them shove a file down your poor multiplexed session... You will be locked up. Scott -- Signature follows. [Skip now] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Yelich scott@[xanth.]cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' Administrator of: Game-Design requests to ODU/UNIX/BSD/X/C/ROOT/XANTH/CS/VSVN/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------