From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 28 11:59:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE6415C1F for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:59:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA24082; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:57:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:57:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: Pat Lynch , Jason Evans , Wes Peters , Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/13644 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Well,that i understand. What i don't get is what the screen utility > does. It looks to me like it almost simulates a console with whatever > properties you want. How people manage to use unix on a day to day basis without screen really amazes me. Screen is a TTY multiplexor. It allows you to create new sessions controlled by your terminal and switch between them. Think of it as VTYs for any generic TTY. You use ^A-space/^A-[0-9] instead of the F-keys. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message