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From: muller@sdcc7.ucsd.EDU (Keith Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: how do I tell the size of a pseudoterm window?
Summary: layers creation is not like X
Keywords: layers xt
Message-ID: <1107@sdcc7.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 10 Dec 88 02:05:39 GMT
References: <2081@vedge.UUCP> <6766@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <564@auspex.UUCP> <665@auspex.UUCP>
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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As far as I know there are only three ways to create a layer:

	1) with the mouse
	2) with a host resident "agent" subroutine call
	3) from a terminal resident  program

None of these directly support the X client model where a client is on a
remote host and can directly communicate to a X server (e.g. there is not
a network version of the openchan() agent library function). It would not be
too difficult to add a "netopenchan()" agent library function (at least to
the 4.3BSD 630MTG software it can be done). I assume that this would be an
attractive feature?

	Keith Muller
	University of California