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From: davet@oakhill.UUCP (David Trissel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: uw
Message-ID: <1996@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 89 08:23:46 GMT
References: <17047@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: davet@oakhill.UUCP (David Trissel)
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Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx.
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In article <17047@mimsy.UUCP> folta@tove.umd.edu.UUCP (Wayne Folta) writes:
>I just downloaded the 'uw' program from sumex-aim, and found it to be the
>most incrediblely interesting program I have seen in a long time!
>
> ... you can dial up your local VAX and have multiple
>windows, without using a Sun over Ethernet, or X-windows, or any of the
>other big ticket items you might otherwise need.
>
>As far as I know, this is the only program that lets you set up
>a multi-window environment over dial-up lines.

Not for long.  Right now I'm beta testing an application I wrote called 
MacLayers (originally intended to run with System V's xt layers driver). It 
is similar to 'uw' but provides some badly needed features that 'uw'
doesn't have.

The most important addition is that all windows are scrollable just like
MacTerminal. MacLayers also supports XMODEM downloading with either 
MacTerminal or MacBinary protocol. (You can work in one window while
downloading in another.)

There are other features like text string searching a window, hiding
windows, multiple font support, and so on. Windows can be any size up to 80 
lines by 133 characters and keyboard keys can be used to scroll/move/select 
windows.

Since it's brand new I'm still changing some basic operations as I get
feedback from alpha users. I should be ready to post a beta version
in two months.

 -- Dave Trissel  ut-sally!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!davet