A friend pointed me at this today - I must have been asleep 20 months
ago when this was new.
http://www.linux.com/feature/54498
Now of course, I'll have the screen zealots saying that this is
unneeded, because all you need is one connection, and screen. I use
screen a lot (which reminds me to go check the progress of a long
running copy) but the attention character can be annoying, and I
often have multiple ssh connections open to the same server, and
sometimes the connection startup time can get annoying.
Niall
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