Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!ut-sally!seismo!mcvax!unido!hmm From: hmm@unido.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Multi-window terminal emulation Message-ID: <15700057@unido.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 18:58:00 EST Article-I.D.: unido.15700057 Posted: Thu Feb 13 18:58:00 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 17-Feb-86 05:25:53 EST Sender: notes@unido.UUCP Lines: 36 Nf-ID: #N:unido:15700057:000:1684 Nf-From: unido!hmm Feb 13 23:58:00 1986 Hi there, here is a thing that some of you really need: I've written a multi-window terminal emulation for the 520 ST. Currently, it is only supported on 4.2 BSD UNIX, because it needs pseudo-ttys (actually, the unix side is the uw code for the macintosh from John D. Bruner). The state is: - Up to seven windows, 24*80 chars each (virtually) - adm31 emulation - Small 5*7 font so that 24*80 chars fit on a screen - Monochrome monitor supported only If you don't believe it, I'm editing this note in one of the 5 windows on my screen. The other windows contain: a hack game, some 'uw' source code, and some administration stuff. A real nice thing if you can log in to another machine, read the source here and monitor the state of the local net on the same screen ! Before I release it, I want to add a large font (selectable on a per-window basis), some file transfer capability and speeeed ! In the moment it uses the vro_cpyfm() call, which is rather slow. I think I'll write some fast routines which are optimized for the special cases I need. This should be not too difficult, because every transfer will be word-aligned. Some further thoughts: What about a local editor, which uses ed on the unix side and provides a window-oriented interface with mouse, cut and paste and all that neat stuff ? Possibility to run TOS programs in one window ? Graphics terminal emulation ? Troff previewing ? Any other ideas ? A final word about releasing: I want to post the source to mod.sources. I will not post binaries, and I will not send mail to anyone outside good old Germany (it's too expensive). Hans-Martin Mosner University of Dortmund (W. Germany)