-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/10/07 11:27, william pursell wrote: > Tyler Smith wrote: >> Second, and more to the (OT) point, what does screen do better than >> multiple xterms, or shell-mode in Emacs? >> > Possibly the nicest feature of screen is the ability to > detach it, and the ability to attach multiple times. For > example, you can run a screen session, start a shell, > walk across the room (or the country), attach to the > session and interact with the original shell. Or, you > can open your file and start editing, detach from > the session and log out, go home, ssh back to the > box at work and reattach to the screen session and > be sitting in the editor where you left it. It provides > continuity by allowing you to leave your shells running > for months at a time without having to put those > phenomenally lame signs on your monitor that say, > "please don't log me out, I'm running a simulation > that may take a while and have to lock up this terminal > because I don't know any better."
Yes, but competent OSs have batch queues for running such jobs. Why Unix has never had such a capability is beyond my understanding. (NO!! cron is *not* an adequate substitute for batch queues!) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGQ5bWS9HxQb37XmcRAh/MAKCdssn0trshapMax0YpOLa+bun8AwCdFVv+ DMY840XzVQfzimewFu7Q5vo= =wjts -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
