From: byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) Subject: Re: Coherent vs. Linux - a comparo Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 12:22:34 GMT
In article <THKORDE.93Jun24174910@limbo.ncsc.mil> thkorde@ncsc.mil (Todd Kordenbrock) writes:
>In article <C900yr.7x4@news.claremont.edu> jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
>
> You can do the same thing with Linux. It supports virtual screens
> quite handily, with mouse-based cut-and-paste between them. Pretty
> slick, in my experience.
>
>Are you saying that the text based linux (ie. no X) supports
>cut-and-paste between consoles....if so, my considering upgrading my
>machine to 8Mb of mem before installing linux will be put on hold.
>
>
>todd
>thkorde@afterlife.ncsc.mil
As Jim has stated in another post the selection1.4 code can be found in all
the usual places. The code for it is also distributed with the SLS distribution
in /usr/src/selection1.4 along with a binary for Microsoft mouse. The kernel
must be patched however. I did this just last night and it works fine.
Later,
BAJ