I have an admin that loves to open bunches of screen sessions and leave them open forever. This eventually kills the box, obviously. Screen is a great tool that does not in any way prevent people from doing goofy things. On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Stephen wrote: > I used to annoy my admins in school because i was the monster of > screen abuse on that server. > > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Bryan O'Neal > wrote: > > I'll be honest I have been reading this and going "oh yha, that is a good > > one" but I have never heard of screen until now > > http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/screen/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of > Matrix > > Mole > > Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 10:06 AM > > To: Main PLUG discussion list > > Subject: Re: List of Command Line Tools > > > > I am surprised, with all these great command line tools that have been > > mentioned no one has yet to mention screen, an almost vital component in > my > > toolbox for command line usage. > > > > Other programs I use that I don't believe I've seen mentioned: > > > > rtorrent - Torrents > > mcabber - Jabber tool (connected to gchat) uudeview - used to decode > binary > > files from newgroups > > > > I've tried both tin and slrn for newsgroup reading, both work great for > > text, but for some reason seem to fail at binary newgroup usage in my > > opinion (been over a year since I used newsgroups though so couldn't say > off > > the top of my head why now). I've found nget works great for pure > binaries > > though. > > > > I've been trying to find a really good imap based command line email > client > > that blends almost perfectly with gmail and it's inability to accurately > > implement imap according to the RFCs (basically something that does > similar > > to thunderbird but via command line instead). I've tried mutt, but it > > generated extra emails whenever I send for some reason (they appear in my > > inbox as replies of my email for some reason, causing unnecessary > clutter). > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com