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From: schwartz@karl.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
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Subject: Let's make xterm bigger!
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Date: 10 Apr 91 04:00:51 GMT
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In article <3478@unisoft.UUCP> greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf) writes:
| What's gained by putting a raw-mode interface between you and the terminal?
| It's an extra process and a tty/pty pair.  Over a network that becomes
| redundant

On the other hand, if you already are saddled with an xterm, that
might be a good place to do the cooking.  You'd also want a way to
extract the current history from the stove, er, xterm; using Tk style
ipc-via-X, maybe.