Re: misc questions: screen, version notation

[Asher Haig <ahaig@iglobal.net>]

G. Crimp, ye416@freenet.victoria.bc.ca on 1/8/98 10:51 PM

>	I am in an interrogative mood this evening.  There are two things
>that have often caught my eye when cruising the dselect selection
>browser.  The screen package is one.  From the description it seems to
>me to be pretty much the same thing as the virtual terminals that come
>part and parcel with Linux.  Are they the same, or do they provide
>something the VT's don't ?

Screen is more for over telnet sessions etc. It also provides the ability 
to detach (either great, or evil, depending on who you ask) screens and 
resume them later.


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