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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: Terminal Emulator in Window
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Date: 9 Feb 90 05:06:07 GMT
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In article <9002090329.AA21631@astro.psu.edu> antunes@ASTRO.PSU.EDU (Alex Antunes) writes:
|Hello!  I have looked around, but I can't seem to find a terminal
|emulator that will allow you to call it up within a window.  Is this
|possible, and has anyone done it?  Ideally, I would wish to be able
|to dial in to a mainframe in a half-sized window, and be able to
|simultaneously be editing or such in another window I called up.
|All the term-ems I've tried can be sent fron-to-back but cannot
|be scaled down to coexist with the workbench.
|  Any ideas?

A-Talk III works just fine with Workbench windows. In fact at each resize it 
will recompute the no. cols and no. of rows, so if you are running under UNIX
you could write a new termcap/terminfo that uses, for example, a 60x10 
characters window and run emacs on it.  

-- Marco
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