Quick Tips on how to use "Screen"?

[Bill Marcum]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:23:24 +0800, Senectus . 
  <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have any links to a site with Tips and methods for using
> the app called "screen"
>
> I've been searching for some time and keep getting lost of false
> positives due to the common name of the app (you try searching for
> "screen tips" or "screen howto" etc :-P )
>
Try "GNU screen".

> As I understand it I should be able to use screen to ssh into a remote
> site start a process then  drop off the net and be able to reconnect
> to that same still running session when I log back on again.. is that
> right?
>
To do that, you may need to have screen installed and running on the 
remote host.


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