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From: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Any way to implement "Boss is coming" program?
Message-ID: <7163@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 00:24:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: ism780c.7163
Posted: Sat Aug 22 00:24:31 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 10:40:44 EDT
References: <234@mv04.ecf.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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Keywords: screen swapping at lightning rates

In article <234@mv04.ecf.toronto.edu> ctfg@ecf.toronto.edu (Caspar the Friendly Ghost) writes:
>I would like to be able, with as few key strokes and as much speed
>as possible, to blank the screen of the current job, and replace it
>with something looking more like official "work".  The best I've
>been able to do is use ^Z to stop the job, and alias "z" to some
>likely program.  But this takes a little too much time.  A single
>key stroke would be even better.


Caspar (tee hee):
	I have found that on 4.xbsd systems the recent posting to
	comp.sources.unix has been very helpful.  I am referring
	to screen.  

	I really don't have to hide when I get in a good game
	of Larn or something, but I can see applications....

	Screen allows you to have multiple screens and just by pressing
	^A^A, you switch to the last screen (which could convienently
	display some section of the kernel being edited in
	vi).  It redraws within .5 seconds. 

	When I used to have your problem, my solution was to
	quit out of the game (of course with a save), clear the
	screen and then (here's the kicker) compile a link to
	/etc/termcap that was a .c file.  Compiling /etc/termcap
	generated so many error messages that everyone else had
	to think that you were doing real work.



MikeP
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boss:  I only play games when things are slow, really...