It probably is (for some). I just added a reason why I use it sometimes
(with X and all, btw, as my X connections over a VPN time out
occasionally).
Igor
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Harig, Mark A. wrote:
> Isn't the slow connection the most important criteria?
> After all, most people who need multiple "windows" (which
> screens provides) normally think of using X to get
> those extra windows, but wouldn't want to use X if the
> connection is slow.
>
> Let's hope the Cygwin port gets picked up by the 'screen'
> maintainers so it's not an orphan.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@;cs.nyu.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:37 PM
> > To: Robinow, David
> > Cc: Harig, Mark A.; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: Screen for cygwin
> >
> > Or when you need to reattach to a dropped session and keep all of your
> > environment / commands...
> >
> > BTW, I ported Screen to Cygwin back in September (
> > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00419.html ), just enough to
> > get it to compile and run. It worked surprisingly good, but I was
> > unable to get it to recognize window sizes beyond 80x25... Hope the
> > other porter had more luck.
> > Igor
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Harig, Mark A. wrote:
> >
> > > When running ssh to a ssh service on a Cygwin machine
> > > via a slow connection.
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Robinow, David [mailto:drobinow@;dayton.adroit.com]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 12:47 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: RE: Screen for cygwin
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > From: Rafael Kitover [mailto:caelum@;debian.org]
> > > > > Subject: Screen for cygwin
> > > > > My version of screen for cygwin, which I actually finished
> > > > > putting together a month ago is here:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.io.com/~rkitover/screen-3.9.13.tar.gz
> > > > >
> > > > >... For now if you're interested in
> > > > > screen please feel free to use this!
> > > > I'm not interested. Should I be? Under what circumstances
> > > > would one want this?
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