Well, this program just splits your screen into two windows, each running a shell, so you can do two things at once. All you have to do is unbundle the package and run the 'Configure' script that is included. It is fairly simple, and can only be run by terminals emulating a vt100 terminal. More documentation for this program can be found in the file "splitvt.man". -Sam Lantinga slouken@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu The idea for this program came from Dave Ljung (ljung@cae.wisc.edu) Thanks Dave++! Version Notes: Version 1.0.1 First release Version 1.3.0 Second release Added window size change handling. Added automatic vt100 detection. Version 1.3.1 Improved portability. Version 1.4.0 Third release Added "sticky" cursor for windows Ported to Linux Added modifiable upper window size Added utmp logging Added set-uid root capability Slightly optimized the vt100 code Improved vt100 emulation Added verbose configuration Ported to BSD 4.3 Added a command mode Version 1.4.1 Reformatted man page by march@tudor.com Version 1.4.2 Added SPLITVT environment variable (thanks to Mark Fugazzotto) Fixed bug in vt_prompt() Version 1.5.0 Fourth release Reworked command line options Added .splitvtrc support Version 1.5.1 Removed top and bottom bars Added -norc option Version 1.5.2 Fifth release Added slick xterm title bar Added xterm mouse click support Version 1.5.3 Added -login option Added -nologin option Added -rcfile option Version 1.5.4 Ported to NeXT by Lans Carstensen Miscellaneous bug fixes Version 1.5.5 Added simple 8 bit char support (output) Install Notes: This program has been compiled on the following UNIX systems: Sun/OS 4.1.x Sun/OS 5.1 (Solaris 2.1) ULTRIX 4.2 ULTRIX 4.3 IRIX 4.0.1 IRIX 4.0.5F HP-UX 7.00 HP-UX 8.07 HP-UX 9.01 AT&T System V.3.2 BSD 4.3 Linux (by upsyf173@HRZ.Uni-Bielefeld.DE) FreeBSD AIX 3.2.4 NeXTStep (by mgrlhc@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu) Under AT&T System V.3.2 (a 3b2 machine) I had to add the line: CC = gcc at the top of the Makefile so that it didn't get a syntax error in /usr/include/sys/wait.h. This particular 3b2 machine had been souped up with gcc and other exotic software. Under Sun/OS 5.0 (Solaris 2.1), running gcc, the grantpt() function breaks under the -O compiling option. Just remove that from the CFLAGS, and everything will work fine.