jdb@mordor.UUCP (John Bruner) (11/10/85)
Some of you may recall my multiple-window terminal emulator UW, which I first posted to "net.sources.mac" last July. After about six weeks of inactivity I started working on improvements in September. I now have another version ready for distribution, and I've posted it to "net.sources.mac". The README file in the first part of the distribution describes the changes I've made. A significant feature which I did not implement (yet) is file transfer. (I do plan to add this eventually.) As before, the distribution includes the Macintosh binary and MacWrite documentation (in BinHex 4.0 format) and C source code for 4.2BSD. (I use it on a VAX; however, I know of several 4.2BSD systems on which it runs and none on which it does not.) The distribution also includes an MLisp file for use with (Unipress) Emacs, courtesy of Chris Kent (cak@purdue). [I'd also like to publicly thank Chris for his help finding bugs.] UW is not public domain; rather, it is copyrighted. However, you are permitted to copy it provided that the copies are not sold and the copyright notice is perserved. (Chris Kent has given permission, with the same stipulations, for distribution of his MLisp code.) Note that UW is *not* shareware. (If you'd really like to send money, please donate it to your favorite charity.) I also ask that if you distribute the binary you also distribute the documentation too. (I received letters from a number of people who had the binary but not the documentation I distributed last time.) BTW, UNIX users without Macs may still be interested in part 3 of the distribution (the UNIX source portion) because I use UNIX-domain datagram sockets to pass file descriptors from "uwtool" to "uw". From time to time there have been questions in "net.unix-wizards" about how "access rights" are transferred between programs using sockets. (I won't cross-post to that newgroup, though! :-) I will also send this distribution to the INFO-MAC repository at SUMEX. -- John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) MILNET: jdb@mordor [jdb@s1-c.ARPA] (415) 422-0758 UUCP: ...!ucbvax!dual!mordor!jdb ...!seismo!mordor!jdb