[H-GEN] Detaching in putty (was Re: General Digest, Vol 64, Issue 17 (was Script E-book ?))

[Robert Brockway]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Benjamin Fowler wrote:

> My favoured solution for long running jobs that I might want to
> interact with again in the future is to use screen(1).  It was more
> useful in the old days when people could only get shell or green-

Hi Ben.  It's still useful for anyone who regularly uses a shell.

I'm typing this from a screen session right now.  I always IRC from screen 
- I move around the world reconnecting to screen and typing on IRC and no 
one even notices that anything has changed.

Over the last few years I've been supporting developers who use the shell 
but sometimes aren't very proficient.  Screen is a big hit when a show it 
to these guys.

> screen access to their boxen (or if you, like me, were stuck on
> annoyingly buttoned down university student servers which only ever
> permitted one login at a time).

Memories :)

Cheers,

Rob

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