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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  xterm and duplicate windows
Message-ID: <9003131629.AA15654@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 13 Mar 90 16:29:27 GMT
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> Can anybody tell me about the availability/feasibility of an xterm
> client which can open an arbitrary number of duplicate
> (non-interactive) session windows via some set of specified servers?

Well, it's not xterm, but I have a terminal emulator which can do
exactly this.  (It can also do much more: it can open windows on a more
or less arbitrary number of displays, and from none to all of them can
be read-only.)

It's got some problems; the biggest one that comes to mind is that
there is no cut/paste.  (I've been unable to come up with a coherent,
implementable paradigm that I think is sane enough to be worth doing.)

> The proposed application of this tool is in a workstation-equipped
> classroom where each student could refer to an instructor's xterm
> session in one window while possibly attempting to carry out a
> parallel course of action in another window.

...which the instructor can in turn look at, and possibly type into...

Funny, that's precisely the application that came to mind when I
started trying to think of a use for this feature.

If you can ftp (which I would guess from your address you can), fetch
*.c, *.h, and mterm.aux from the X/mterm.src/ directory on 132.206.1.1.
(If anyone who can't ftp wants a copy, send me mail - I can mail copies
out.)

					der Mouse

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