If you aren't familiar with splitscreen, you might want to try it..
a ncurses-based telnet-like utility with a typing window on the bottom
and a session window on the top. It has a scroll-back buffer, and
you can set the colors and highlighting on the command line. A useful
interface to converse, ttylink, etc.
-- Dave Brown N2RJT <rwof@mx.dy.fi>