[H-GEN] VNC for console apps??

[Bradley Marshall]

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On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 08:11:18AM +1000, Russell Stuart wrote:
> Does anybody know if there exists a program that will let a remote user
> view on Linux console & send keystrokes to it?  Like a text version of
> VNC really.

The obvious one is screen - you can login as the same user, and run screen
-x -r to resume the same screen session.  I just brought up 2 instances of
the one screen session, and you can definately control the same terminal and
see the output.

Thanks,
Brad
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