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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Multiscreen on Unix
Message-ID: <7143@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 14:56:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: mimsy.7143
Posted: Fri Jun 19 14:56:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 10:02:00 EDT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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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....
>>I don't remember if vi worked in any of the windows, but I doubt it....

In article <13537@watmath.UUCP> mberkley@watmath.UUCP writes:
>vi certainly does work inside of the "wm" that's on our systems here.

But you are not running 4.1BSD.  Your `wm' uses pseudo terminals,
which of course look like terminals to vi.  (4.1BSD actually had
pty code, but it did not quite work.  I recall installing a fix
from, I think, CMU.)

Once again, vi misbehaves rather horridly when it is writing to
a pipe (in 4.1BSD and 4.3BSD, at least).  Try `vi | tee /dev/null',
and see if it says `Missing lhs' for you too.
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