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From: EVERHART%ARISIA.DECNET@crdgw1
Subject: Boss update
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I have added several new functions to BOSS, a multisession monitor
for VMS (on whatever type terminals one wants). BOSS
will let you control up to 8 processes (more if you change a #define)
from your terminal with quick switching between them, or will talk
the UW protocol to allow multiwindow editing over a serial line from
your Amiga or Mac with appropriate software on the Amiga or Mac end.
   You can arrange to have output from other processes (which can be
subprocesses or top level) buffered internally and displayed when you
switch to the process, discarded, typed immediately, or you can have
the process stall when it outputs. You can xoff one process at a time if
you like.
   In addition, you can get BOSS to capture normal terminal output 
to its internal buffer even while it is being displayed, and you
can cut and paste lines from the internal buffer to another process.
Further, you can tell BOSS to log output from a process to a disk
file, or to turn logging off. This output occurs regardless of
your choice of what to do with the output to the terminal, so a
logfile can capture a session whose output is being discarded.
Each controlled process can have its own logfile.
   Switching is fast. BOSS requires you have the PY: and TW: drivers
loaded. DEC has versions of these included with the DECwindows kit;
other versions are available on VAX SIG tapes.
   I will send the sources (in vax11 C) in 2 messages: first, the
boss.c file, then a DECUS C archive with the .com files and the
help file. You can split the DECUS C archive at the -h- lines
by hand if you don't have arch.
Glenn Everhart

This represents edits to the program by Charles Karney of Princeton.