Re: misc questions: screen, version notation
G. Crimp wrote:
> 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 useful becuase you can use it in situation where you're not at the
console -- telnet to a remote host and run screen therem run it in your
xterm, or from a dumb terminal.
It also has additional handy features, most notable is the ability to
"detach" the programs running under screen, and reattach to them later, from
elsewhere.
> How does one read the version numbers in the dselect window ? Eg.,
> gsfonts 4.01-5. What does the -5 stand for ?
It's the debian version number.
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