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Re: Accessing a program started in another term



On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 22:29, Colin Ingram wrote:
> Lets say, I'm at work and I start a remote session for an interactive
> program, like octave.  Then I go home with and my remote terminal
> session and the octave program are still running at work.  Is there a
> way for me to take control of that terminal and interact with the
> running octave program?  I use octave as an example but I'm looking for
> solution (if it exists) that would be generally applicable.

screen can do this sort of thing for textual apps.  For X, you might try 
(tight)VNC (which is in Debian in various packages), or FreeNX (which sounds 
much better, but is not in Debian yet, afaik).

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com

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