KARNEY%PPC.MFENET@NMFECC.ARPA (06/28/88)
Announcing BOSS v. 2.2
BOSS lets you create up to 8 processes on a VAX/VMS system. Each process
is identified by a single letter (A thru Z). At most one of these
processes is `current'. What you type is sent to that process, and output
from that process is sent to your terminal. A process which is not current
can run but cannot do output. (Output is saved until you make that process
current.) You usually switch between processes by typing control-\
followed by the identifying letter.
You can run any program under BOSS. For example, you might
run Emacs or EVE in process E
SET HOST to another machine in process H
do a FORTRAN compilation in process F
execute DCL commands in process D
talk to your colleague using PHONE in process P
and so on.
The new features in this version (v. 2.2) compared with the last release
(v. 1.5) are:
* BOSS can control both subprocesses and top-level process (which you have
to log into).
* Broadcast messages that BOSS receives are rebroadcast to the current
process.
* Command character (usually control-\) is settable.
* BOSS can automatically start and initialize processes when it is started.
* Hooks are in place to support additional terminal types. (Currently,
VT100-compatible terminals and ADM3As are supported.)
* BOSS works with the latest release (June 1988) of the pseudo TTY drivers.
Let me know if you want BOSS and I will send it to you. If there's
sufficient demand, I will post BOSS to INFO-VAX. Note that you also need
the latest release of the pseudo TTY drivers which was posted to INFO-VAX
recently. (I can send you this too, in case you missed the posting.)
Charles Karney
Plasma Physics Laboratory Phone: +1 609 243 2607
Princeton University MFEnet: Karney@PPC.MFEnet
PO Box 451 ARPAnet: Karney%PPC.MFEnet@NMFECC.ARPA
Princeton, NJ 08543-0451 Bitnet: Karney%PPC.MFEnet@ANLVMS.Bitnet
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KARNEY