On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 04:38:08PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> There is a utility called 'screen' to handle this. It's packaged for
> Debian. You'd run your program in a screen session in one window ('screen
> mutt' for example). You could then detach the screen session from that
> window using CTRL-A CTRL-D. The process is still running, but not in the
> original xterm or virtual console. Then, from another tty, you could do a
> 'screen -r' to re-attache the screen session to the current tty.
>
> I don't know of any other way to do something like this.
>
> HTH,
> noah
>
Then I think I am in trouble...
I chose to run dselect on an xterm as su root.
So, if I kill that window to install a new version of afterstep,
what i am currently running, am I up the creek?
Oh, boy.
Now I am worried.
Anybody got any ideas?
Bonus points to quickest replies.
BTW: don't have 'screen'. Oops.
Arghhhhh!
bw
