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From: gus@apple.UUCP (Gus Fernandez)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: uw window manager
Message-ID: <5570@apple.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 23:09:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 23:09:29 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jul-85 07:14:30 EDT
Organization: Apple Education Research Group, Cupertino CA
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uw is GREAT and FANTASTIC. Anyone who uses a mac to connect with a 4.2BSD 
machine should DEFINITELY check it out.

I have a few suggestions for future versions.

File transfer capability - The lack of it is about the only thing that
   is keeping me from not using MacTerminal for most of my work. 
   MacGet and MacPut work really well, but only with MacTerm. It would be 
   nice to have the download session be only one of the 7 pseudoterminals,
   but then again, I'm dreaming.

Configuration files - to set the default line parameters.

Mouse communication support - Send a message whenever the mouse is clicked
in an area and provide dragging information. This stuff could be read by
a programmable text editor such as EMACS. We have a set-up such as this
at Stanford for EMACS sessions through workstations running the V distributed
OS. It is amazing how much more productivity can be gotten from even simple
mouse supprt. (and how fancy some people can get given the lowest level
interfaces)

Along the same lines, pull-down menu support. A command for creating and
destroying menus and a command (from the mac) for indicating a menu selection,
again, most useful from EMACS)

It would be nice if you removed the copyright notice at the start of the
program, and, instead, placed it in the 'about...' dialog.

Mac XL support. - UW always looks for SERD 1. This only applies to regular
Macs. MacXL's use SERD 2. I worked around this by removing SERD 1 and
renumbering SERD 2 to 1. This has obvious drawbacks.

Once or twice, I have had trouble quitting. (the program hangs.) I can't
remember the exact circumstances.

BTW - UW DOES work on a 128K Mac. (TNX - I still have one for testing
purposes, and my 512 is back on the east coast.)

All in all, a very good job. I was amazed that the program was reasonably
efficient at 1200 baud, aneven nicer at 9600.

						Gus Fernandez

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