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From: michaelp@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM (Michael Prusynski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Looking for Screen Splitting program for shell enviroment
Keywords: window(1)
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Date: 12 Apr 91 19:26:54 GMT
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joem@nos850.UUCP (Joe Muller) writes:
>   Here at nos850 we do not yet have the capabilities of using a windows 
> enviroment such as X Windows, so I was wondering if there are any 
> programs out there that will allow one to split the screen into 2 or 3
> sections with a shell process running in each one.  Ideally the user
> would be able to run a process in one half of the screen, and by some
> control sequence or tap of a function key, change their current shell to the
> other the half of the screen, and at the same time able to see the
> output of their previous process without it interfering with their
> current work.  I'm sure that I'm not the first person to come up with
> this one, so surely there must be such a utility out there somewhere.


I thought this might be of general interest...
There is a command in BSD and Ultrix called window(1) which does what you
want.  I use it occasionally, but it falls short when you "rlogin" to
another machine via the window.

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