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From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: The 'Amnesiac'  screen s set up when  FreeBSD  starts up
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On Mar 27, 2006, at 3:36 PM, gs_stoller@juno.com wrote:
> 	Is there a command that tells one on which screen one now
> sits, and if so what is its path-name?  Where are these screens
> set up, and can one change that, say adding new screens?

The "tty" command will indicate which terminal the shell is  
associated with.  There are kernel options which can be changed to  
let you setup more or fewer virtual TTY's; see "man vt"...

-- 
-Chuck