From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Unix Windows (uw)
Date: 9 Sep 92 14:58:07 GMT
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
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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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