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- From: KHOCKENBURY@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Character-based windows and Formatting diskettes
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 14:53:43 -0600
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- Two questions:
- (1) I'd like to have multiple windows, with cut&paste and scrollback, but
- without the overhead of X. Ascii-based is good enough, as long as they're well
- behaved (handle terminal emulation correctly, etc.). Alternately, the virtual
- console will do if I could have scrollback and cut & paste between them.
- Anyone done anything like this? (Preferably mouse-able cut-and-paste.) I've
- heard of a package called "screen" - will this do most of what I want? Has it
- been ported?
-
- (2) Several months ago, someone posted about formatting 3.5" disks closer to
- their actual capacity of 2.0megs. Unfortunately, I can't find a saved copy of
- this message. So could someone tell me how to format a 3.5" disk more than
- 1.44 meg under linux? Even 1.8 megs or so would mean 4/5th the # of disks when
- backing up my system.
-
- Thanks, and Happy Linuxing!
- -Kurt
- khockenbury@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu
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