[wellylug] 'parking' a terminal

[Jamie Dobbs]

OK, thanks for that. Hopefully someone who know how to use that command will
be at Mondays meeting and can show me how it works (in case I can't work it
out for myself!).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ewen McNeill" <wellylug at ewen.mcneill.gen.nz>
To: <wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [wellylug] 'parking' a terminal


> In message <003901c37357$aa691bf0$fb32be9b at SYSTEMSLAPTOP1>, "Jamie Dobbs"
writes
> :
> >I log in to my Linux box at home in the morning and start it doing some
> >downloading/compiling etc.Then go in to work, SSH in to my box at home (I
> >can already do this) then call up the same terminal session that I was
> >working on that morning at home to see how it is going, do further
commands
> >etc.
>
> screen(1)
>
> Should be in any Linux distribution, but might not be installed by
default.
>
> And yes, it's very very handy.  I use it all the time for long builds,
etc.
>
> Ewen
>
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