Re: Can a program create a new window ?

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Phil!Gregory wrote:

> * Michael C. Toren <address@hidden> [2005-11-08 01:29 -0500]:
> > ircii (and epic, bitchx, and friends) create multiple windows using the
> > curses library; screen isn't involved in any way.
>
> epic also supports what it calls screens -- completely separate display
> areas (devices?) that share a a backend process in common.  It either
> works by using multiple windows in X or multiple windows in screen (GNU
> screen, that is).  The latter functionality seems to be the sort of thing
> that the original poster was interested in.  See
>
>  http://www.prbh.org/help/index.php?q=4_Misc/window/create
>
> for more info.
>
> That page also seems to imply that the buggy behavior I recall has since
> been fixed.

Yes!  That's it, allright, I remember it was in relation to the /window 
command...

I also remember it crashed epic (and occasionally the whole screen 
session) on li.net's old box :), so I stuck with /window new (which is 
analogous to screen's "split" display.

-Dan

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