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Date:Mon Jan 3 11:46:53 2002 
Subject:Teraterm (Was Re: Thirty years of frustration (:-/)...) 
From:Aaron Sloman See text for reply address 
Volume-ID:1020103.03 

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pete@jwgibbs.cchem.Berkeley.EDU (Pete Goodeve) writes:

> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 22:10:30 +0000 (UTC)
> Organization: University of California, Berkeley
>

[Pete]
> >> reading
> >> through a ten-line window is a pain.

[Steve]
> >Yes, but there's no need to restrict yourself to that.  Esc-w will
> >switch back and forth between the half size and full size ved windows,
> >and of course you can make your xterm bigger as well.

[Pete]
> Ah, I hadn't noticed that.  It doesn't really help much though, because
> it's still the old "single-window terminal" problem.  I'm actually
> usually telnetting in to the machine, so I really just have an 80x25
> window for the session.

I've discovered that telnet from a Windows machine is a terrible
experience unless you use teraterm, a free package available from
here
    http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html

including ssh extension for added security (telnet across the
internet should be avoided, though on an internal network it is
fine. See http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html )

Teraterm allows you to vary the window size and gives a good xterm
emulation, including allowing use of function keys.

I've been told that PUTTY also works, but I have never tried it:
See
    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Mostly I avoid touching machines that include any microsoft
software so I rarely need these things.

> >If you haven't recompiled the libc5 poplog to include the X interface,
> >you won't have xved available at the moment, but that gives you ved in
> >its own window whose size you can control like any other.
> Don't have X remotely, I'm afraid  [Well I *could* have, I suppose,
> but I'm inclined to avoid it where possible...(:-/)]

In this department the MSWindows users regularly use eXceed to
access programs on our unix/linux machines. I believe there are free
alternatives, but I can't remember any references.

If you do run an X server on your machine you can then also use
the pop-11 graphical extensions.

See HELP rc_graphic, TEACH rc_graphplot, and my GUI toolkit based on
that, the RCLIB package described here:
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/rclib/help/rclib

The sim_agent toolkit uses RCLIB for its interfaces.

Aaron
====
Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
EMAIL A.Sloman AT cs.bham.ac.uk   (ReadATas@please !)
PAPERS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/ (And free book on Philosophy of AI)
FREE TOOLS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html