Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HS> There's a Sun Sparcstation at work that I would like to use HS> "virtual terminals" on, if it's even possible. So, is it ?? HS> HS> 'uname -a' tells me this: HS> HS> SunOS fred 4.1.3 1 sun4m
The Linux virtual terminal support is provided by the Linux kernel directly, so you're not going to get something identical on a machine running Solaris (or SunOS 4). It also has the annoying misfeature that it only works on the physical console of the machine. :-) One common way around this is to use an excellent program called "screen". You can get source from GNU, or [[ObDebian]] 'apt-get source screen' on a Debian box and somehow export the source to your Sun machine. Screen lets you run multiple programs under a single terminal window in pretty much any environment, and even lets you detach a session, log out, and come back to it later. It's a godsend for working with, say, a VT320. (And in fact right now, since I've just moved and we have no real connectivity, I'm sending mail from Gnus in XEmacs running in a screen on a Solaris 8 machine, with the connection being a 14.4kbps modem plugged directly into a VT320. Having found the relevant frobs, life is good, or would be for 10-year-old technology. :-) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell