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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
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Subject: Re: uw (Unix Windows)
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Date: 18 Feb 91 06:10:15 GMT
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In article <1991Feb18.041844.4883@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> jxf@orion.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) writes:
>[uw] is lacking in a few features, like being able to upload/download
>files, buffered output so you can scroll back through your session, etc.
>
>If a higher version does not exist, does anyone know if the source code
>for the client-end of uw that is run on the Mac is available?  Failing
>that, does anyone know where the author, John D. Bruner, may be reached?

uw has not been updated for over two years.  (I believe the source
code to the Macintosh end of it was inadvertently lost!)

However, there's another program that may do what you want.  Try
MacLayers (available from sumex).  It does much the same things as uw
did, only a bit more cleanly.  It offers infinite scrollback, I
believe (probably using a file on disk for temporary storage, but it
works!).  And it offers file transfer in the background!

For those of you who aren't in the know: uw and MacLayers both let you
open several sessions to a Unix machine at once through a modem.  Both
pretty well-done, but MacLayers was designed to do the things that uw
didn't.

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