[ILUG] tip of the day: screen

[kevin lyda]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:11:09PM +0000, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> Wonderful application! This does to telnet sessions what window managers
> do to X!

it's actually better then that.

> And then.. nothing! just a command prompt! hmm.
> Try press CTRL-A, CTRL-C. If you had typed anything at the prompt it has
> disappeared. What happened was screen created a new session for you.
> Type something into the new session, do some work, what ever..
> Now, press CTRL-A, CTRL-A, and you get flung back to the first session!
> Pressing it again does the obvious.

then do work.  finally when you need to disconnect, go home, go to
a different system, etc just press C-aC-d to detach.  then when you get to
where you're going reconnect to the system and reun screen -r.  it was
great at uni, and i also find it useful if i'm working on something
on a machine at work because i can just disconnect in the evening and
reconnect in the morning (since my laptop doesn't stay at work).

kevin

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