Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!usenet From: nice1.ne.rpi.edu (Y. Danon) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: re: Unix Windows under Win30? Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 14:22:02 GMT References: Newsgroups: <1991Jun21.014453.20292@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: nice1.ne.rpi.edu In article <1991Jun21.014453.20292@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> rlk20269@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Leon Kapusta) writes: >I was just wondering if anyone has written or is currently >writing or is planning to write a Windows 3.0 application >that allows you to have multiple 'unix' windows running at once. > >What I mean is this: there is a program available for Atari computers >that is called "Unixwindows". I'm not sure who wrote it but what it >does is it allows you to open many login windows each independent >of one another when you are logged in to a unix machine. It uses the >unix shell 'uw'. I think that it is one of the most useful utilities >I've seen for remotely logging onto unix machines. Now what I'd >like to have, is something like this that runs under Windows 3.0 >that allows you to use any Comm software to make the connection, >and then takes over by creating multiple login windows. > >I know someone was working on a program like this that runs under >DOS because I have an early copy of it. It does actually work well, >but the interface is very crude. Please let me know if you have any >comments/suggestions about this. If there is a version in the works, >can I have a test copy to try? If not I might write it myself, but >I'd need some suggestions from the users out there! > >Thanks a lot! > >Rich Kapusta >University of Illinois > If you have an ethernet card you can log to the unix machine sevral times, one shareware pakage under win 3.0 is winqvtnet.