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- MacLayers
- Version 1.30 --- 17 May, 1993
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- MacLayers provides multi-window capability for a Macintosh connected
- to a host UNIX(TM) system with sockets support. Each window may be
- associated with a shell, login to a different host, or an individual
- command. Complete facilities are available for controlling the window
- and the associated host processes attached thereto.
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- A Note About Distribution
-
- MacLayers is usually distributed in two parts: a BinHex or MacBinary
- file that comprises the Macintosh side (and includes the MacLayers
- application along with the MacLayers Manual), as well as a UNIX
- shar archive that includes the UNIX side source and this file.
-
- The latest version can always be retrieved via anonymous FTP from
- rascal.ics.utexas.edu in the directory mac/communications/MacLayers.
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- What You Need To Run MacLayers
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- 1) A Unix host which supports the sockets protocol.
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- 2) A Macintosh with more than 128k of RAM and 64K ROM with a connection to
- the host.
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- 3) The MacLayers Macintosh application provided with this package.
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- 4) For System 7 users, the MacLayers keyboard layout file which should be
- installed into the system.
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- 5) The Unix host server command 'layers' provided with this package.
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- 6) If you want to resize windows which are logged into a second BSD
- machine or resize windows on a BSD machine running in non-layers
- mode then you need the 'layersize' command provided with this package.
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- 7) If you want to specify window titles on your own (such as to indicate
- your current directory or other such information) you need the Unix
- 'layertitle' command provided with this package.
-
- Explicit and complete documentation is provided in the MacLayers Manual
- which is distributed with the Macintosh application.
-