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RE: screen
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:17:10 -0500
- Subject: RE: screen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of
> Schulman.Andrew
>
> I'm going to try to build and package screen for Cygwin.
> It's such a useful program, I just have to try.
>
Could somebody *please* explain to me why screen is in any way useful on a
system with even a semblance of a window manager? I can see the point of
screen on a stripped-down text-only system, but when you can open up any
number of rxvt+bash's and ALT-TAB between them...
...what am I missing? And I'm not picking on you Andy, I keep hearing how
wonderful this screen progam is, and I have yet to meet anybody who can tell
me why.
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Gary R. Van Sickle