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From: rob@raksha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere)
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Subject: Re: uw (Unix Windows)
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Date: 21 Aug 90 20:18:57 GMT
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In article <1990Aug21.034333.11880@math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu
(Howard Chu) writes: 
>In article <5594@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob
Carriere) writes: 
>>If [screen only works on BSD], [it] is pretty useless.  This functionality is
>>already built into csh (look up the %, fg and bg commands).  A program like
>>screen would be useful on something dumb like SysV, but it's a no-op on BSD.
>[glowing description of screen]
>[Are you convinced yet?]

Quite.  Either the original description failed to mention the good stuff, or I
wasn't reading it right, but what I see described to me now (hi, Rich! :-) is
indeed worthwhile.

I don't know if I'd call it better than uw, but I am aware that my computer
usage patterns are somewhat strange...

SR
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