Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!udel!rminnich
From: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Suggestion for vt100r2.8: external file-transfer programs
Message-ID: <982@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 15 Jan 88 14:17:56 GMT
References: <195@geocub.UUCP>
Reply-To: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <195@geocub.UUCP> anthes@geocub.UUCP (Franklin Anthes) writes:
> Here's my idea. instead of adding the `n' file-transfer protocols to the
>`m' communications programs why couldn't there be a menu selection which
>would :
>	a) stop accepting input from keyboard until same menu item selected
>	b) either open serial port in shared mode, or close serial port until
>	  user requests it to be reopened using menu item.
   I like this idea. Note that it is similar to one i mentioned 
earlier, about using the Unix Windows (uw) as a full-blown 
multiplexer program. For Those Who Came In Late, uw muxes
up to seven amiga windows to seven Unix processes (usually but 
NOT NECESSARILY shells). On the Mac (its origin) that was as far
as it went. On the Amiga it makes sense to think about muxing
up to seven Amiga processes to seven Unix processes.
   Of course all this is a moot point (for me, anyway) with SLIP
available. And, once ASLIP support gets hacked in, the efficiency
issue goes away too!
ron
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ron (rminnich@udel.edu)