hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (10/13/90)
There doesn't seem to be a comp.windows.mgr newsgroup, so here we go... Now that Bellcore's MGR windowing system has been ported to the Atari ST, I've been having a bit of fun playing with the system again. I've just taken the source for screen 2.0a and gutted it, rewriting it to support sessions in MGR windows. Sort of like the Unix-Windows programs for Mac and ST, but instead of running a unix-windows program locally, you just use a dumb-terminal program and MGR. I guess it suddenly occurred to me that maybe this had been done before... Yes? No? Anyone interested? [... Screen was written by Oliver Laumann at the Technical University of Berlin. I kept the code which dealt with setting up the sockets and pseudo-terminals, and detaching and re-attaching sessions. Threw away all the terminal support stuff, added support for MGR menus and such... It's pretty nice, when all you have between your desktop box and the rest of the world is a serial line...] -- -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan one million data bits stored on a chip, one million bits per chip if one of those data bits happens to flip, one million data bits stored on the chip...