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[Matrix Mole <matrixm AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 31 May 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> > My question, why is it needed? On a remote machine, you can usually open
> > as many telnet windows as you need. Physically logged into linux machine,
> I dial (not telnet) to my bbs and cannot open additional consoles.

But you dial in from you rlinux box right? Does the BBS allow a full 
fledged TCP stack to the rest of the internet? If you use screen with your 
bbs account, do you use from the bbs itself as opposed to being used on 
your home system?

> > you have the virtual consoles. I've never used more than a few console
> > windows at the same time, so why would someone need the power that
>
> Screen lets you copy between screens (on the same or different consoles)
> using keyboard commands.  I can use lynx on one console or screen, and
> pico on another, and copy bits and pieces between them.  No mouse needed,
> no X.

Ok, that could be really useful as opposed to trrying to bounce back and 
forth between virtual consoles to copy information (as I've done in the 
past).

> There is also a smaller, simpler, program called something like splitvt,
> which comes with one of the SW7.1 packages and dates back to around 1995.
> The documentation is very poor.  I finally figured out how to block by
> learning screen first.  You need to mark with the space bar and move
> around with hjkl keys (sideways and up and down cursor movement), then use
> a control+key combination to cut or paste or switch between two or more
> split screens on one console.

This sounds very much like the key commands that are used in the vi 
editor. Slightly offtopic here, but I just discovered today throough 
playing aroudn that vi isn't installed by default in BL2, but it does have 
an editor that appears to be a stripped down version of pico. Steven: Did 
you have to compile that editor yourself to get it to be small enough to 
include with BL2, or is it just an old version of pico that is stand 
alone? Since I've installed the full fledged pine package already, this is 
mostly just "need to know" kind of information. :)

> Screen from SW80 requires ncurses from the same.  I could not find screen
> for SW71. Let me know if you cannot get it to work and want help.  I found
> a later version than what comes with SW80, which works.  There might be an
> additional dependency.

I'll be having to install ncurses eventually anyway (its needed for 
bittorrent to work, along with having to install pyhon *shudder*). As for 
the dependecies for the SW80 screen, it wouldn't be too hard to discover 
what those dependencies are (installpkg screen.tgz then ldd screen). 
Although, I may, if I decide to install screen (which is still up in the 
air), use the version from SW91 as that's the version that I appear to be 
migrating towards just because of the extras it has in it (along with 
more recent version of certain packages).

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