Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!brolga!uqcspe!cs.uq.oz.au!rhys
From: rhys@cs.uq.oz.au (Rhys Weatherley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Unix Windows under Win30?
Message-ID: <2136@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
Date: 25 Jun 91 23:23:06 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.014453.20292@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <9065@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au
Reply-To: rhys@cs.uq.oz.au
Distribution: comp
Lines: 43


In <9065@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> jcwasik@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik) writes:

>In article rlk20269@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Leon Kapusta) writes:
>>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.

>Are you saying that there is software that allows you to have multiple
>sessions to a unix system with only one comm port?

Yes there is - I wrote it!!  Well ... what I did was write a DOS version of
the Unix Windows program.  It's available on SIMTEL20 as the following file:

		PD1:<MSDOS.MODEM>UWPC105.ZIP

It's just for DOS, and the new version (2.01) will be out any minute now
(you just watch me :-) .  Once that is out, I'll be starting in earnest on
a port to Windows 3.0.  The DOS version uses full-screen windows with keys
to change the currently displayed window.  It works well for DOS, though
sooner or later I'll have to do some overlapped thingy.  The Windows 3.0
version is going to be all-singing, all-dancing.

Unix Windows allows you to have up to seven shells running at once.  The
protocol requires you to have a server running on the remote Unix machine
to manage the switching between windows, etc, but it works well and much
faster than other multi-windows thingys for Unix like "screen".  The server
source code is included in my UW/PC distribution.

UW/PC is not as full a communications program as Procomm, Telix, etc - it
doesn't have all the features (version 1.05 doesn't have X/Zmodem but 2.01
does) of the conventional programs, but for connecting to Unix systems,
nothing beats it (yes I know, I'm advertisiting!! Shock Horror!! :-) .

Cheers,

Rhys.

+=====================+==================================+
||  Rhys Weatherley   |  The University of Queensland,  ||
||  rhys@cs.uq.oz.au  |  Australia.  G'day!!            ||
||       "I'm a FAQ nut - what's your problem?"         ||
+=====================+==================================+