Re: misc questions: screen, version notation
On Wed, Jan 08, 1997 at 11:17:42PM -0600, Asher Haig wrote:
> 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.
I have a DEC vt420 terminal hooked up and the screen package allows me to do
virtual terminals on that (including cut&paste between the terminals) :-)
Adrian
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