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From: yarvin-norman@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
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Subject: Re: MGRterm, anyone?
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Date: 7 Aug 90 01:21:44 GMT
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In article <1990Aug6.170432.29616@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger) writes:
>Is anyone out there writing a port of Xterm for the mgr windowing
>system?

MGR does its own terminal emulation; it doesn't need an external terminal
emulator.  So you can just run a shell directly in an MGR window, without a
middleman.  This is faster, and is part of what makes it possible to run MGR
on the Unix PC.  (no 400K mips-gobbling xterms)

>If it isn't needed, meaning I've missed some way for a remote machine
>to spawn new shell windows, please tell me.

I may be wrong, but I don't think there is any way for a remote program with
no connection to MGR to establish a connection.  You can multiplex windows
over a single connection, though.  So you can log in and run a remote
program that starts up multiple shells, multiplexing their inputs and
outputs onto the single connection.

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Norman Yarvin					yarvin-norman@cs.yale.edu