[sf-lug] screen addict (was Re: switching from ssh server to term..)

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Feb 16, 2008 2:07 PM, Rick Smith <rick at rbsmith.com> wrote:
> Hi, my name is Rick.  I'm a screen user.
> I started back in back in 98.  I was missing some program
> I used at HP to have multiple terminal sessions in one window.
> Cool program, what was the name of it?  Heh, yep, screen is like that.
> Takes hold, and all that came before is forgotten.  Anyway, I went
> to a meeting of wplug.org, describing my woes of missing multiple
> terminal sessions, and wasn't getting much in the way of relief.
> Then some guy, he looked at me from the shadows, and said "might be
> something for you here.  Goes by the name of ... (whispers) screen..
> why don't you type it in, give it a try ... (oh, then the big hook)..
> what have you got to lose .. it's free..".  That's how it started.
> Simple really.  Start it up, control-A C for a new session.
> Control-A Control-A to toggle back and forth.  I could go on .. but
> you know the story.  There's no turning back.

Rick, you're supposed to be anonymous!  Screen Addicts "Anonymous"!!!
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
--
"It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an
intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing
gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and
difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious
watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or
failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to
Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878