gabriel@anl-mcs.ARPA (John Gabriel) (10/17/85)
Some of the features requested can be provided by the window mgrs already in net.sources, but they work better at 9600 baud than at 1200, and better still on an ANSI terminal at 9600 baud. I am writing a control program running on 4.2 bsd for a set of 8 super micros - actually a small MIMD machine. When it is done it will be fairly readily adaptable to do SIDEKICK like things, i.e. substitute the utilities you want, change some defines and alter the help messages. It has an escape to the shell built in as one of the commands which is the mode where you would do most of your work running as SIDEKICK's alter ego. It turns out to rather full of ioctl() calls which would make it quite a job to move to non 4.2 bsd, but the other 75% would go easily. As soon as it is fit for public consumption, and I have met our legal requirements by publication of a report etc. etc. I will post it to the net. The really tricky things in my control program were learnt from Ron Jacob's window mgr, which is gratefully acknowledged. All the rest is the usual attention to detail and microscopic hacks necessary in any communications program talking either to real lines or to other processes. It is sort of an evil business. The main reason for posting it at all is not as a directly usable program execept to control some number NPROCS of micros, but to save other folk from all the little gotchas. If there are any FLAMES about posting that kind of junk to net.sources, please let me know before I do it. It will be some while before it is ready, but since it, together with the cross support for the micros is the MIMD O/S, I have to write a user manual ASAP but not before the thing is bullet proof. John Gabriel Snail Mail: J.R. Gabriel MCSD Bldg. 221 C244 Argonne National Laboratory 9700S. Cass Ave Argonne, IL 60439 Phones: AT&T (312) 972-7240, FTS 972-7240, Home (312) 739-5572 ARPA/MILNET gabriel@anl-mcs
charles@hp-pcd.UUCP (charles) (10/28/85)
> > how to capture parts of the >screen, etc. from the C shell? This becomes trivial if you use a window in the emacs editor for your session. I am using a Gosling emacs. I suspect this capability is available in most versions of emacs. The main problem with this approach is that it is slower than communicating directly with the shell. If this is interesting to you I can give more info. Charles Brown hplabs!hp-pcd!charles
nelsons@psu-cs.UUCP (Shannon Nelson) (11/02/85)
> -- > On the IBM PC there is a very nifty program called Borland Sidekick. > > After loading it you can do all you normal work, until you get interupted > and you need to do something like: lookup an address, fix a little file, > ask for the current date etc. (different versions, with different > features under different names exist). At this point you type a special > key sequence and the sidekick takes control until you quit and then you > are right back were you left off. > > My question: has anyone developed such a program for Unix machines, and > if so could they post it to this news group? Try C-shell's control-Z... Shannon Nelson ...!tektronix!reed!psu-cs!nelsons