[TUHS] Curly braces: An evolution of UNIX and C

[Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via TUHS]

Larry McVoy via TUHS writes:

> I don't have a lot to add to this other than there was some terminal, I think
> a VT-something, that had the standard 80x24 but it had a 25th line that was
> the status line.  I think BSD had a Ctrl-T that dug info out of the kernel
> and displayed it on that line.

That sounds a lot like the 'sysline' command. It took over the last
screen line and displayed the 1/5/15 load averages, time, number
of users logged in, and announced who had just logged in or out.
It worked on more than VT terminals.  If the termcap entry provided
enough glue to allow manupulating the active screen area, sysline
could co-opt the bottom line and use it.  It ran happily on my Ann
Arbor Ambassador terminal in 132x66 mode.

--lyndon