Re: [OT] Screen (was Affecting Inst. Change)
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On 05/10/07 11:27, william pursell wrote:
> Tyler Smith wrote:
>> Second, and more to the (OT) point, what does screen do better than
>> multiple xterms, or shell-mode in Emacs?
>>
> Possibly the nicest feature of screen is the ability to
> detach it, and the ability to attach multiple times. For
> example, you can run a screen session, start a shell,
> walk across the room (or the country), attach to the
> session and interact with the original shell. Or, you
> can open your file and start editing, detach from
> the session and log out, go home, ssh back to the
> box at work and reattach to the screen session and
> be sitting in the editor where you left it. It provides
> continuity by allowing you to leave your shells running
> for months at a time without having to put those
> phenomenally lame signs on your monitor that say,
> "please don't log me out, I'm running a simulation
> that may take a while and have to lock up this terminal
> because I don't know any better."
Yes, but competent OSs have batch queues for running such jobs. Why
Unix has never had such a capability is beyond my understanding.
(NO!! cron is *not* an adequate substitute for batch queues!)
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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