Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!umeecs!msi-s0.msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Re: uw (Unix Windows) Message-ID: Date: 9 Aug 90 13:34:52 GMT References: <1990Aug8.155752.12968@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1990Aug9.111433.5851@math.lsa.umich.edu> Organization: Otter Lake Leisure Society Lines: 32 X-Member-Of: STdNET X-Bad-Pun: There's no place like Nome for the Hollandaise. [In article <1990Aug9.111433.5851@math.lsa.umich.edu>, hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes ... ] > 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? > >>1.) Will it work with a color monitor? > No. I have used a version that was modified to run on a color machine. But it's not very useful. I had difficulty reading most of the UW fonts in color. [...] >>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. There is an alternative: an application called "screens" that runs on the Unix machine can let you "flip" among several virtual terminals by using a hot key. With that alternative, you get a full screen rather than windows, which can be an advantage in some applications. However, you can't watch the output of multiple programs under screens. -- Steve Yelvington at the (rain-replenished) lake in Minnesota steve@thelake.mn.org