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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