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From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Unix windows for the ST
Message-ID: <718@stag.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 89 15:15:04 GMT
References: <825@a.lanl.gov>
Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN
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In article <825@a.lanl.gov> wxh@a.lanl.gov (Billy Harvey) writes:
>Has anyone had any success in using the Unix windows programs available from
>him1.cc.umich.edu?  I have the program to run on the Atari and one recently
>posted to him1 to run on the Unix side, but I haven't had any luck in
>getting the two to talk together.  Maybe I'm not doing something right.

I use UW all the time...do it as follows:

On the Atari, start up the uw program from the desktop (uw is a
terminal emulator as well, so starting it from Flash would probably
confuse thing). Then log into your Unix system, set your terminal type
to adm3a, and run the uw program on the unix side. You should then be
able to open multiple windows/processes. One word of warning. If you
are using the new ROMS (i.e. you have a new MEGA-2/4), the current UW
programs will not run correctly. I am looking at the source code and
it appears that uw copies the system fonts from ROM via a vector that
moved somewhere else on the new ROMS. As soon as I get time, I am
going to try to tear out the font mapping code in UW and replace it
with a much faster mechanism that Chuck Purcell (stag!roseate!cjp)
gave me...although getting it to work on color monitors is a bit
higher priority (it sort of works now).

 -Todd Burkey    "A member of STdNET-The ST developers' Network"
  trb@stag.UUCP