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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: windowing on a vt100
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Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 14:02:10 EDT
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> Anyone  in "netland" know of a way to get multiple windows(24x80) up on a 
> 	vt100 terminal.  I've heard rumblings that it is possible using
> 	the newest X11 version of X windows????

Anything's possible, I guess, but I would be VERY surprised if this were the
case.  X was specifically designed for bit-map displays, and I suspect
almost all X programs assume that you have a bit-mapped display handy.  There
is a huge gap between dumb character terminals and bit-map displays, and trying
to build a window system that supports the former would probably result in one
that inadequately supported the latter.

> Other alternatives would be helpful as well.
> 
> 	Note we are running on a VAX 8650 with Ultrix 1.2(incomplete SV curses)

There have been several windowing programs for dumb terminals posted to the net
at various times; check out the "comp.sources.unix" archives.  There is one
provided with 4.3BSD, called "window"; you may be able to get that to run, if
you have 4.3BSD source handy.
	Guy Harris
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