tcl@cs.brown.edu (Tom Lawrence) (06/16/90)
I have written a sun console accelerator and made it available for anonymous ftp from wilma.cs.brown.edu (128.148.32.66). The program is called tconsole. The following is from the README file included with the source: Tconsole is a sun console accelerator. In its default configuration, tconsole uses the same font and window size as the sun console. It can be started up with a different font and any window size, however. The acceleration factor on a SS1 GX (4.0.3) for cat'ing a large file is around 70x. GX-less machines do not benefit as much, but tconsole is still considerably faster than the actual console. The usefulness of such a program is perhaps questionable, given that most people use X or sunview. I frequently like to log on fast to read/send mail or read news, etc. Waiting for a window system to start up is overkill, (especially if you use OpenWindows) but the vanilla sun console us quite unusable, hence the usefulness of tconsole. Tconsole is a terminal emulator, much like an xterm or cmdtool. It allocates a new tty and runs a shell or other command on that tty. However, since it does not rely on an underlying server like xterm or cmdtool, it starts up very fast. * Tom Lawrence A is for apathy * * tcl@cs.brown.edu B is for boredom * * C is for... oh forget it *