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- From: tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
- Subject: Re: Virtual Terminal SV/386 R3.2.2
- Message-ID: <tr.712285700@samadams>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 01:08:20 GMT
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- pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
-
- $ Hmmm...here's the part of the readme from screen3:
-
- $ "screen" is a window manager that allows you to handle several independent
- $ screens (UNIX ttys) on a single physical terminal; each screen has its own
- $ set of processes connected to it (typically interactive shells). Each
- $ virtual terminal created by "screen" emulates a DEC VT100 plus several ANSI
- $ X3.64 and ISO 2022 functions (including DEC VT102 features such as line and
- $ character deletion and insertion).
-
- $ Since "screen" uses pseudo-ttys, the select system call, and UNIX-domain
- $ sockets, it will not run under a system that does not include these
- $ features of 4.2 and 4.3 BSD UNIX.
-
- And since TCP/IP adds these BSD features to SysVR3, you are ready to
- compile screen once you buy a TCP/IP add-on package.
-
- To tell the truth, I don't know if my configuration uses Berkeley
- sockets. My system does have these sockets available but I don't know
- if my configuration of screen uses them. I did write the config file,
- and I told it that I have named pipes, so screen may use them instead
- of BSD sockets. Then again it may not, but you should get them when
- you get TCP/IP.
-
- I cannot imagine using a character-based display without using
- screen. This is doubly essential when you don't have BSD job control.
- I often start something and subsequently decide that I want it in the
- background. With screen, I can leave a process intact just by invoking
- a new window.
-
- I realize this sounds like proselytizing, but GET SCREEN!
- --
- Tom Reingold
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