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> Haven't looked at splitvt but I'm aware of it through reading some of your
> posts on this list. The same (splitting) can be done with screen, i.e.,
> you can have the terminal or console divided into 2, 4 (or more) parts
> with different programs running in each. Copying and pasting will
> definitely work in an xterm using screen, but you'd probably need gpm for
> copying and pasting at the console.

You can use the keyboard to cut and paste.  The documentation is sparse.

> > When at sdf, instead of using screen, I type Ctrl-z to background a
>
> Don't you have to have some special membership level to be able to use
> screen at sdf?

I may have compiled it for my own use there.  I am an ARPA member (paid 
them $36 once).


> > What do you use more than 10 terminals for?
>
> chat client in one, 2-5 rxvt's running things like mc, top, ssh, or just
> cli stuff, and 3-5 running browser instances. I've gotten really attached
> to elinks since it is capable of tabbed browsing. If I had elinks on BL3 I
> wouldn't need as many simultaneous rxvt's, that's for sure.

There is a good chance links for libc won't work with ssl, but I will 
eventually try to compile it for glibc with SSL and javascript support 
(unless someone more experienced is willing to tackle the patching of the 
javascript stuff from Mozilla).

> > Instead of xpdf, try using the SW4.0 gs in x to view a file.
> > -sDEVICE=x11 (or it may be the default, or you can put it as the default
> > in /etc/profile).  The gs's I compiled don't run under X.
> > There is a ghostview front end that I have only tried in Windows.
> >
> > This should obviate your fonts problem and eliminate the need for xpdf as
> > well. (Just use pdftopbm on pdf 1.5 formats, with xpdfrc pointing to
> > gs/Abiword fonts).
>
> Great idea. I'll have to look into this. xpdf displays most English
> language documents I've tried it with now that I've finally broken down
> and installed those xfonts. But Greek or Hebrew text in pdf's get reduced

Can you install those fonts for X?  If you extract the text with 
pdftotext, can you view using console fonts?  kbd.tgz

> to nonsense characters. At the same time, I managed to print out a pdf
> using your gs package that had not only Greek and Hebrew characters, but
> even some Syriac text in it. If I could get gs to display pdf's for me, it
> seems like the font problem would definitely be solved, as you've said.

Which gs fonts package has those characters?

gs --help will list all the devices available which I think includes x11
for SW4.0 (it does for SW7.1 gs).

Probably just:
gs -sDEVICE=x11 file.pdf  (I don't know how resolutions work under X, you 
may need to specify that as well, so read Use.html).

> Thanks for the pointers.

Thanks for the feedback.
Today I had to use the JBIG2 version of gs to view and print a file that 
was highly compressed (65K for five very legible pages, instead of the 
usual 100K per page at 300 dpi, so expect more of this compression).
Sindi

> James