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From: len@array.UUCP (Leonard Vanek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: "screen" vs. "wm"
Message-ID: <535@array.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 09:25:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  4 09:25:31 1987
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In article <16048@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) writes:
>I'd appreciate any comments from anyone who has used both the "screen"
>program recently posted to comp.sources.whatever and the "wm" program
>of an earlier vintage, comparing/contrasting the two.
>
>Thanks,
>Mike Khaw

screen works beautifully! So far the only places it has failed are with
a program that test the TERM shell variable before sending the appropriate
string to convert a vt100 to 132 column mode and back and with file
transmission using kermit in remote host mode.

I tried to install wm a while back, but I did not succeed. I forget exactly
what the reason was, but I seem to remember something about having to
change some things in curses and not having the source to do so because
I do not have a source license. By contrast, screen compiled without a hitch.

I recommend screen.

Len Vanek