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- From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Unix Windows (uw)
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- Date: 9 Sep 92 14:58:07 GMT
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- Several people have sent me mail asking about Unix Windows, so I thought
- I'd post this for general consumption.
-
- Unix Windows consists of two programs. One is a server that runs on a
- Unix system that you dial into, and the other is a front end that runs
- on your home computer. The combination lets you run up to seven
- separate shell sessions (on the Unix machine) with each session being
- displayed in a separate window on your home computer. The programs
- take care of multiplexing the separate communications streams through a
- single modem connection.
-
- There are at least four different front ends, all of which talk to the
- same Unix server. One is for the Mac, one is for the Amiga (neither
- of which I know anything about, but check your standard FTP sites),
- one is for Windows, and one for DOS.
-
- The Unix server supports many nice features, such as background
- downloads in a window while other things are being done in other
- windows, automatic resizing of windows, displaying of strings in
- the title bars of the windows, etc. The different front ends support
- these features to varying degrees. The Mac version was written by the
- person who wrote the Unix server, and so probably supports all of the
- features.
-
- UW-WIN is available as uwwin103.zip in pub/pc/win3/util on
- ftp.cica.indiana.edu. You need to run a server on the Unix machine,
- see uwserver.zip in the same directory. As far as I know, it is the
- same server as used for the Mac, and presumably Atari versions.
- UW-WIN is the shareware Windows version (but only $15, I think).
- Unfortunately, it does not support file transfers. It displays each
- shell session in a separate Windows window. You can move and resize
- each window independently (but if you try to change the window
- width, it crashes - you can change the height OK).
-
- It runs quite well under WIN-OS2, with one exception (besides the
- window width change problem) - it hangs my entire WIN-OS2 session
- if I try to reinitialize the modem, but I also have similar (or
- worse) problems with other Windows comms programs that others have
- used without problems, so I may have some strange hardware or
- configuration problems.
-
- UW-PC is available on SIMTEL20 as UWPC201.ZIP in PD1:<MSDOS.MODEM>, or
- equivalently as uwpc201.zip in /pub/msdos/modem on oak.oakland.edu.
- This is the released DOS version (freeware). It is somewhat more
- complete than UW-WIN, but can only display one window at a time (a hot
- key switches between windows). It does supports file transfers in one
- window while you are doing other things in a different window.
- Again, you need the uwserver.zip file. I think it's in the same
- directory.
-
- There is an early beta of a windows version, but it is still very
- buggy and has file transfers disabled, so I wouldn't bother with it
- yet. It also hangs my WIN-OS2 sessions as soon as I try to type
- anything, but it may be my hardware or configuration again.
-
-
- By the way UW-PC and UW-WIN were written by different people.
-
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- Ted Richards ted@isgtec.com [...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ted]
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