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From: woerz@iaoobelix.UUCP (Dieter Woerz)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Can someone please e-mail me the unix end for uw?
Message-ID: <167@iaoobelix.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 00:58:53 GMT
References: <1468@uop.edu> <244@sdba.UUCP>
Reply-To: woerz@iaoobelix.UUCP (Dieter Woerz)
Followup-To: comp.sys.atari.st
Organization: Fraunhofer Institut fuer Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation
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Posted: Fri May 20 01:58:53 1988
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In article <244@sdba.UUCP> stan@sdba.UUCP (Stan Brown) writes:
>...
>	What excatly does this package do (windows on Unix(tm)) obviously
>but what terminals (explicitly does it support charcater based terminals)
>does it support & what version(s) of UNIX does it run in
>...

UW is a package which implements a terminal elmulator on the
Macintosh, with the capability of using several windows on the
Macintosh side. The I/O of these windows is multiplexed over a serial
line to the UNIX side. There the UW will be started after the first
window has been opened. UW now (de)multiplexes the different streams
from and to the windows on the MAC.
But you need a system which has ptys, otherwise it is difficult to
get it running with multiple windows.
The window front end has also been ported to the ATARI, the UNIX part
remains the same.

Hope this helps.

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Dieter Woerz
Fraunhofer Institut fuer Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation
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