pmy@boole.acc.virginia.edu (Pete Yadlowsky) (01/12/88)
I'm working on an application which involves splitting the screen into a display-only section and an interactive section. Both deal only with text. In essence, the user enters commands in the latter section, while system status is displayed and updated in the former. It seems the obvious thing to do would be to open two windows and console devices. But, I'd like to save a little programming effort and open two console devices in the same window. Can this be done? I tried and failed, but maybe there's a trick. Also, I tried sharing the same console device between the two displays (in the same window). By sending control sequences, I could change the size and position of the console as needed. This *almost* worked, except for some unwanted scrolling in the "other" display. Maybe I should stop being lazy, and just do it right. :-) Just in case, though, anyone ever attempted something like this? -- Pete Yadlowsky Academic Computing Center University of Virginia e-mail: pmy@vivaldi.acc.virginia.EDU