[Gllug] Screen I just have to share

Jim Bailey jim at lateral.net
Thu May 16 07:03:57 UTC 2002


On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:58:34AM +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John Southern <john at sinoda.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
>     John> Does that mean you have the screen running on the remote
>     John> machine and when you loose the connection the process still
>     John> runs. On reconnecting you can gain control back?
> 
> Exactly right.  You can also reattach from more than one connection at
> once (with the -x switch), which is useful for having something follow
> you around the house rather than being tied to a terminal.

It does this and a whole lot of other stuff I am only just begining to
get to grips with.  The man page is very detailed and it seem to have
more gadgets than a Swiss army knife.  It was almost as good as the
newbie ecstacy of discovering TAB complete. ;-)

Peace Jim

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