USING MULTIPLE TEXT WINDOWS
Some tips and techniques

Sometimes it is useful to have several text windows -- i.e., terminal sessions -- running on your screen at the same time. This can be accomplished as follows:

• If you're using a PPP line, you can start several different telnet sessions running at once. For instance, if you're using WinQVT, just click on the "terminal session" button several times.
• If you're running X-Windows on an X-terminal and you want to start an additional "xterm" text window, just type

  xterm -ls &

  at the prompt in any of your already existing xterm windows. (The "-ls" just guarantees that the program will read your .login file on startup as well as your .cshrc file.)

Here is an interesting use for multiple text windows:

How to clean up a cluttered directory

Start up at least three simultaneous text windows. Put them all in the same directory.

• In one window, type

  more *

  This will display the contents of all the files, in alphabetical order, a screenful at a time -- you press the spacebar to go to the next screenful. Whenever you come to a long file and you don't want to see the whole thing, press control-G to advance to the end of that particular file.

• In a second window, type

  rm -i *

  (Careful -- don't omit the "-i", or you'll delete all your files!) This command will delete all your files, in alphabetical order, but in "interactive mode" -- you'll be asked "y/n" for each file, one file at a time. For each file, view it in the first text window with the "more" command, and then decide whether or not to delete it in the second window.

• The third window is reserved for miscellaneous purposes. You may come to a file that you don't want to delete, but perhaps you don't want to leave it the way it is, either -- you may want to edit it, or at least rename it with a name that is more indicative of the contents of the file.