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From: joey@tessi.UUCP (Joe Pruett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Multiscreen on Unix
Message-ID: <396@q7.tessi.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 20:23:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: q7.396
Posted: Wed Jun 24 20:23:22 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 04:45:56 EDT
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Reply-To: joey@q7.UUCP (Joe Pruett)
Organization: TSSI, Beaverton, Oregon
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Many people have been saying how hard it would be to make a program
present multiple sessions on one terminal line and be able to
repaint the screen when switching back and forth... Well, such
a program exists.  The version I've seen is called screen and it
works with termcap.  It presents a VT100 like command set and then
maps that to whatever your terminal really needs (including doing
intelligent insert/delete stuff).  You type ^A^C to create a new
screen and ^A<space> to cycle through the screens.  Other ^A pairs
do other things.  It works with vi and rogue and other such programs.
I'll try to find the sources and author and see about posting it
to comp.sources.{appropriate}.

	Joe Pruett
	Test Systems Strategies
	...!tektronix!tessi!joey