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From: mberkley@watmath.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Multiscreen on Unix
Message-ID: <13537@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jun-87 06:29:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: watmath.13537
Posted: Wed Jun 10 06:29:44 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 01:37:23 EDT
References: <910@minnow.UUCP> <3680021@nucsrl.UUCP>
Reply-To: mberkley@watmath.UUCP (J.Michael Berkley)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <3680021@nucsrl.UUCP> naim@nucsrl.UUCP (Naim Abdullah) writes:
>I remember using a program called "wm" on a 4.1bsd system, that
>allowed you to create multiple windows via the cursor keys and
>run programs in each one. I don't remember if vi worked in any
>of the windows, but I doubt it, since the program used pipes
>and Guy already talked about the problems that would occur.

vi certainly does work inside of the "wm" that's on our systems here.
If all you've got is a dumb ascii terminal, then "wm" is the program
for you.  It's awfully nice to be able to start up a compile or
something and then switch to another window to read news while it's
running.  There are other ways of doing this (GNUemacs for one), but
"wm" is one of the nicest.

The version of "wm" that used pipes was the one for version 7.  The
Berkeley version has lots of nifty new features (most of which depend
on Berkeley'isms).  For example, each window has it's own TERMCAP
environment variable, created by "wm" according to the size of the
window.

Mike Berkley, University of Waterloo

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