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From: dalton@gladys.UUCP (David Dalton)
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Subject: Re: UNIX PC: terminal emulation without UA
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 04:17:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 04:17:01 1986
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In article <1577@emory.UUCP>, kim@emory.UUCP (Kim Wallen {Psychology}) writes:
>                 As it is I find myself tending to just use the 3B1
> as a stright UNIX machine, but then I can't figure out how to get
> access to some of the things that are done from UA (like the
> telephone manager).
> 
> Anyone out there solved this problem by creating a sort of hybrid
> between the two?
> 

I had exactly the same problem, and I think I found a most
satisfactory cure. I used to keep two separate logins -- one with the
user agent and one without. It was always too big a pain to log off
and log back on again.

The cure is a wonderful little program that you've probably already
seen on the net -- bvi.c. The intent of the program was to allow you
use vi from the user agent, but with a full screen rather than a
reduced-size window. All the program really does is open a full-size
"window" with no borders and run a program in it. I reasoned that it
should be possible, while in shell, to use bvi.c to open a full-screen
window and run ANY program in it, including the user agent.

I've used it to create a command named "agent." The user agent appears
on top of whatever I've been doing in shell, and all the user agent
commands work perfectly. When you log out of the user agent, you're
back in shell with the screen restored.

The details for doing this might get tedious, so I'll spare the whole
net. But do send me mail if you need help...

David Dalton [ihnp4!burl!gladys!dalton]