[Gllug] Mutt

[Richard Cohen]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Vincent AE Scott wrote:

> David Damerell(damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk)@Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 04:21:59PM +0000:
[snip]
> > Another option would be to use 'screen'.
>
> not sure what you mean by that.  can you elaborate?
> i connect to a shell server using ssh over a dialup, to read my email, i
> cant see ow running screen at the local end or far end will make much
> difference.

If you run screen at the remote end, it won't *see* your line dropping, so
it'll never need recovering.  You can just re-connect, log back in, and
re-attach your screen session and carry on as if nothing had happened.

> -vince

Cheers
Richard
P.S. I like screen a lot :-)


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