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- From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
- Subject: Re: Looking for comm program to allow quasi-windows
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 23:02:03 GMT
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- Iskandar Taib (ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
- : In article <21672@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> pthirose@tostada.engr.ucdavis.edu (Paul Hirose) writes:
- : >I've recently been told that there is an application for the Macintosh
- : >computer called "layers" (or "maclayers") that will allow you to have
- : >multi-window capability when connected to a host Unix system with socket
- : >support. This is accomplished with just one connection.
- : >
- : >I was wondering if there was the equivalent of this for an ibm type
- : >computer, and if so, where I might get it. I would assume that some
- : >kind of program would run on the Unix side, and I would appreciate a
- : >pointer to that as well. I'd hope it's public domain/freeware, since
- : >I'd like to just install this on our local Sun-sparc lan for use by
- : >all our users.
- :
- : Theres something called "Winunix" (I think) on ftp.cica.indiana.edu
- : (129.89.20.84) in pub/pc/win3/util. It lets you open up seperate shells
- : in seperate windows.
- :
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- Perhaps you mean UW/WIN? This is a commprogram I wrote that uses the UW
- protocol that originally was designed for the MAC. It allows multiple
- login shells to a BSD based UNIX system over a single modem. It is uwwin103.zip
- in the util directory, and the UNIX server source code is uwserver.zip.
-
- I am working on version 1.04 which fixes bugs, has more emulations, and does
- X/Y/Zmodem file transfers.
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