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In article <3147@cello.UUCP> sanders@sanders.austin.ibm.com (Tony Sanders) writes:
>I have also seen/used a windowing system that runs on ascii terminals.
>It's not the greatest but when my X server broke I used it for a little
>while with some success.

I know of two such windowing systems, windows and screen.  Windows is
a full blown window manager for character terminals and I belive it
comes with 4.2 BSD.  Screen just allows one to have up to 10 virtual
terminals on one physical terminal.  I've used screen since it was
first posted to the net and would die if I lost it.  Windows is a bit
too slow on a loaded system to use but screen has proven its worth.

This is how I get around the no windowing problem in VI.  However, I
seldom have to use this since VI can switch back and forth between
files and by using the cut buffers I have had all the power I need.
With the tag stack feature in later versions of VI I have more than
enough power to do what I need without multiple editor windows.  I
would rather have a fast "editor" than a slow lisp interpretter any
day.

Art Dederick
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