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Re: IM on a home debian network



On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:54:34PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:30:05PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>  
> > and leave this VC 1 open.  VC 2 is ssh'd to the box and either mutt or
> > 	$watch -n 20 "from -c"
> > 
> > VC 3 is for net-related curses stuff (currently a wget session).
> > VC 4 is where I type startx when I need to.
> > 
> > There was a time when I had Ctrl-Alt-UP set in inittab to open a new vt.
> 
> Never heard of 'screen'?
> 

I have heard of it, but it relies, like so many other gnu tools, on the
operator (me) having either a good memory or a cheat-sheet for
keystrokes.  I have a poor memory (learning disability) and a
cheat-sheet makes using it very slow.  Whereas, Ctrl-Alt-UP is simple.

Doug.



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