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Re: uw (unix windows) is great!

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From: Mark Delany
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 13:35
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In <1992Apr4.102614.16624@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> msingh@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (The Supreme Commander) writes:

>>>Today i opened up simtel:modem/uw*zip, a package named "unix windows".

>Has anyone gotten the terminal emulations to work correctly? i would
>ideally like a vt100 emulator, since adm31 doesn't recognize the PC
>cursor keys. (Then again I'm no UNIX guru, and wouldn't know how to
>fix it if it were easy..)

Changing the terminal type on the Unix server is pretty trivial (see
server/uw_tty.c). You would not need to be a UNIX guru to do this.

Changing the emulator on the PC end is not so easy as that is where the
emulation actually occurs. You may need to be a PC guru to do this.



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Mark Delany                                          markd@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au
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From: markd@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (Mark Delany)
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Subject: Re: uw (unix windows) is great!
Keywords: comm software; multi windows
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Date: 10 Apr 92 13:35:41 GMT
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