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- From: knarf@nasim.cube.net (Frank Bartels)
- Subject: screen, manuals, ...
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 1994 22:13:40 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-Reply-To: <9408041109.AA26168@phlem.ph.kcl.ac.uk> from "sjg@phlem.ph.kcl.ac.uk" at Aug 4, 94 12:09:19 pm
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- sjg@phlem.ph.kcl.ac.uk wrote:
-
- > > What are the advantages of screen? Why should I use it? I know its
- > > a matter of personal preference, but so far I've found myself using most
- > > of Unix stuff that the list has found useful. Never thought I'd
- > > admit it, but Unix utils are useful :-)
- >
- > Screen is similar to Juergens virtual consoles. I don't know which is the
- > faster, but the vcons1d really screams on hardware-assisted scrolling
- > machines :-)
-
- I won't compare screen to the virtual consoles. Screen is intended to be
- used on *one* text-based terminal, but the virtual consoles give you
- some terminals where screen can be run on. ;)
-
- I think it would be a great idea to combine both. Running GEM or
- anything else on the "real" console and launching screen on vt01. If
- you redefine your function-keys on vt01 via xkey to F10->^A-0, etc.,
- you should be able to switch between the screens very easy. So you'll
- get the speed of the virtual consoles and the advantages of screen
- (e.g. Cut'n'Paste, Scrollback, Snapshots, etc.) *and* you'll save
- memory, because only one virtual console is needed, which usually eats
- twice the screen memory instead of just the amount of the character
- buffer of screen.
-
- And remember: screen can be run through a serial line, the virtual
- consoles can't.
-
- [I hope I can realize my dreams above soon, but I still had no time to
- install MiNT-Net since I received a larger hard-disk for my TT ;)]
-
- > My manual paging suite is now available for ftp at
- > phl[ei]m.ph.kcl.ac.uk:/pub/MiNT/mans/*
- >
- > It copes with compressed man and cat pages, calls apropos when invoked with
- > the -k option and it comes with a simple-minded mkwhatis (needs to be run
- > from the /usr/man directory) which will generate the whatis database from
- > the compressed man pages.
-
- Sounds great, I'll get it soon. Does it know what to do if MANPATH is
- set to /usr/local/man:/usr/man?
-
- > Now a compressed filesystem would be a neat idea :-)))))))) So long as we had
- > a compressed fsck as well :-)))))))))
-
- I won't use it, because MiNT & MinixFS is not *that* stable. Just
- think about all the problems the DOS user have with their stacker or
- what's it called. And they don't have an update-daemon, they never
- have to sync...
-
- Did you have a look at gzexe?
-
- I'd like to see an 'info'-program which copes with gzipped
- info-pages:
-
- % du /usr/local/info
- 6380 /usr/local/info
-
- [These are kilobytes, no dumb SysV du ;)]
-
- Bye,
- Knarf
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