how do I tell the size of a pseudoterm window?

[Michael "Ford" Ditto]

In article <577 at auspex.UUCP> guy at auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>	   (I presume you can, under layers, somehow arrange
>	   to run a program on a machine other than the one to which
>	   your layers terminal is connected and have it interact
>	   with layers just as if it were running on that machine; if
>	   not, X11 does a *better* job than layers does in that
>	   instance.)

I disagree.  An X11 application can not do its display on a machine
to which it is not connected, either; I think your complaint about
layers is more about the fact that layers is usually run over a
direct serial link, and X is usually run over a (multiple-machine)
network.  Both systems require a virtual 8-bit flow-controlled data
path between the display server and the application, and I think
they are very similar in that respect.

I think the layers protocol is a bit intertwined with the underlying
"xt" protocol, so it may have a slight deficiency there (experts,
please correct as needed).
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