#: 18774 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    11-Sep-93  16:52:50
Sb: #18631-#PtyMan
Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76
To: David George 72240,134 (X)

I will hang this message here, although it is in response to the thread in
general.

I do have screens running and running properly.  I have used it since before
the MM/1 (I remember arguing with Pease about screens vs. windows).  I use it
with both ptys and ptyman.  I have found and fixed the most obnoxious bugs, but
some remain.  In general I prefer ptys over ptyman.  I liked not filling up the
device table and module dir with all those pty/tty pairs but ptyman has still
has several problems (page pause happens at a random point in the line vs. at
the end, the input buffer is flushed on the check for page pause release, page
pause release chars are buffered and eventually displayed, some signals are not
handled right, line wrap is not handled right, can't do 'tmode normal', etc)
that I haven't had time to chase.  OTOH, ptys doesn't like the version of scf
that comes with 2.4 (ver. 31).  That is the reason you can't open more than a
couple windows.  It is an interaction with the signals and the changes MW made
to kill processes on CD loss.  It works fine with scf ver. 29, which is what I
use.  The only problem is getting the address for the shared memory right.  As
it came, it was set for an Atari ST, but I have fixed that so it should work on
anything.  In addition, I hacked screen to use a named config file, so I can
start up with different configurations (root window, 9 windows for my project,
or 2 root windows, 2 C source windows, 2 OSK source windows, etc).

So where are y'all now?  Do you have the problems fixed or should you all trash
what you have and I upload my versions?

Carl

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