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- Howard Chu
- October 14, 1990
-
- Howdy. This is rmgr, my program for managing multiple remote sessions
- thru a single communications line (e.g., a dial-up serial port). The
- header file rmgr.h tries to #include <mgr/term.h>, so you will need to
- have the MGR client library header files installed in a reasonable spot,
- like /usr/include/mgr. (Or just add the -Ipath option to the Makefile
- and fake it...)
-
- This program is derived from Oliver Laumann's "screen" program, and has
- nearly the same system requirements as that program. (I.e., BSD sockets
- and pseudo-ttys are necessary.) Plus, obviously, the console you are
- sitting in front of must be running an MGR server for you to use this
- program at all.
-
- I am calling this a beta-release, although the program is very stable
- and I don't expect many problems to crop up. (But read the man page,
- you may find that the "features" I note could hamper your use... You're
- welcome to tackle the two noted problems and tell me how it went.)
- -- Howard
- hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu
-
- March 7, 1991
-
- A couple more notes... there was a bug in the Other Window function, it
- didn't properly null-terminate the list of arguments passed to execvpe.
- (Thanks to Scott Bertilson, scott@poincare.geom.umn.edu for pointing this
- out and providing the fix.)
-
- There is another bug which I haven't tried to fix - apparently setting
- a window into raw mode doesn't work, it stays in cbreak mode. The result
- is that you can't disable ^S/^Q flow control, making it tough to use
- emacs and such. The simple solution is to add an argument to disable
- flow control, the effect can be carried out by setting the stop and
- start chars to -1 in the SetMode routine. (This is what the original
- screen program does. I foolishly deleted that, not expecting to need it.
- At any rate, it's easy to fix, but I'm not doing it right now.) This
- will be my last posting from good ol' xxx.umich.edu, the movers are
- coming tomorrow to take me away.....
- -- Howard
-