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From: rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere)
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Subject: Re: uw (Unix Windows)
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Date: 21 Aug 90 02:59:28 GMT
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In article <1990Aug20.180400.254@math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu
(Howard Chu) writes: 
]%>In article <A1146754313@thelake.mn.org>, steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve
]%>Yelvington) writes:
]%>> 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.
]Both screen and uw require the BSD pseudo-tty and socket support. I
]don't think anyone has reworked them for Sys V streams. You can go
]ahead and try if you really want to.

If that is the case, `screen' is pretty useless.  This functionality is
already built into csh (look up the %, fg and bg commands).  A program like
screen would be useful on something dumb like SysV, but it's a no-op on BSD.

SR
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