TRW Acquisitions, VCF

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Mon Feb 2 21:49:53 1998

Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net> wrote:
> I wonder what a "virtual terminal" is?

I'm thinking that the "virtual terminals" are the workspaces.

> Do you remember how they moved text between windows? Is it a cut and
> paste operation like MS Windows?

Um, no. As I recall it used the logging function. You set up the
"to" device to be a workspace and then turn on log top or log bottom.
E.g. if you turned on log bottom, then as each line was received
it would be copied (by the terminal) over to the workspace set as
"to" device, and if that workspace is attached to the other datacomm port
then the line gets sent out that port.

So I don't think you can cut-and-paste very easily, but you can set
the thing up to do simple data logging.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Mon Feb 02 1998 - 21:49:53 GMT