On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 03:03:22PM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> On Jul 31,  2:19pm, Don Harrop wrote:
> 
> > I would like to have four usable terminals on screen without having to use
> > X.  You know how you can use Alt F1-F7 to get additional logins?  I want
> > four of those logins on screen in a text mode in something higher than
> > 80x25.  I've seen it done but I don't know if it was a Linux box.  I bet
> > Linux could do it though.  Linux Rocks!  :-)
> 
> Have you tried screen?
> 
> See
> 
>     http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/screen/

OhhhhHHHGGGGH (imagine manly "Home Improvement" voice) Thank you for 
reminding me of this... for some reason I thought it was called "term" 
for which there is no Debian package.  This is so uber-cool... now I can 
run mutt all the time and get back to it when my session gets disconnected 
at work.  Definitely the best thing since virtual terminals.

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