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From: wescott@LNIC1.HPRC.UH.EDU (Andrew M. Wescott)
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Subject: Screen Terminal Manager
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Date: 24 Jun 89 22:19:02 GMT
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I have recently come across a PD product known as Screen
that some of you may be familiar with.  Screen is a window
manager for remote terminals that lets users have multiple
sessions from a vt100 through the use of pseudo terminals.
With a simple control command you can flip back and forth
between several full-screen windows.  Specifically Screen
provides:

1.) Complete ANSI VT100 emulation.  Kiss all those TERM
    and stty problems with remote sessions good-bye.

2.) Multiple full-screen windows

3.) The ^s problem with a VT100 using GnuEmacs is solved.

These are all probelms I have had to deal with.  We are running
Screen 1.0, and it compiled with very little work.  Screen 2.0
provides some NFS support, and it gave me some problems at
run time (but I didn't really try that hard).  The program
was written by Oliver Laumann with modifications by Peter Wolfe
at Kuch & Assoc.  I highly recommend it.  You can download
the source from netlib@mcs.anl.gov.  I will try to help anyone
interested.


Andrew Wescott
University of Houston
Department of Chemical Engineering