Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnewse!danj1 From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: One user's editor wish list Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 00:44:35 GMT References: <2251@borg.cs.unc.edu> Sender: danj1@cbnewse.att.com (Dan Jacobson) Reply-To: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Organization: AT&T-BL, Naperville IL, USA Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: leech@vangogh.cs.unc.edu's message of 12 Mar 91 23:09:24 GMT >>>>> On 12 Mar 91 23:09:24 GMT, leech@vangogh.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan >>>>> Leech) said: J> Probably the nicest thing about VMS I encountered was that it J> detached and preserved jobs - including editor sessions - when the J> network connection dropped. With Oliver Laumann's "screen" program [from comp.sources.unix archives, FTPable from e.g., uunet.uu.net] with my up to 10 windows I can reconnect after a hang up, or disconnect, walk to a groovier office, then reconnect. Cursor stays just where it was, etc. [Compiles on Sun/BSD.] -- Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708 979 6364