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From: roy@phri.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Multiscreen on Unix
Message-ID: <2742@phri.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 19:31:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: phri.2742
Posted: Tue Jun  9 19:31:10 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jun-87 02:05:22 EDT
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Summary: vi works fine under wm

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.

	We've got wm running on our 4.3 Vax, and before that, under 4.2; it
doesn't get much use, partly because not many people know about it, partly
becuase you just don't have enough real estate on a 24 x 80 screen to make
windows practical, and partly because our Suns do a much better job.
There's no denying, however, that it's handy for those times when you're
stuck with with an ASCII crt.

	I just fired up a wm and sure enough, vi works fine.  Emacs won't
run but that's only because emacs uses terminfo and I havn't bothered to
convert the supplied wmvirt termcap entry to terminfo.  4.3 comes with
"window" which does pretty much the same thing as wm.

	If anybody wants the wm source, I can send you a copy (it was in
mod.sources in August, 1985).  The uncompressed distribution kit is 6 files
totaling just under 200 kbytes.  The version I have is advertised as being
"horribly 4.2 dependent", but apparantly early versions (with pipes instead
of ptys) ran under v6.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016