On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:09:58PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote:
 
> Because of this and because it feels so UNIX-ish I mostly work at a
> serial terminal. Now when you read a man page, for some system call
> for example, I *have* to remember it because you cannot have the man
> page and text editor visible at the same time.

Consider looking at the package `screen', which allows you to maintain a
session on a machine independent of the console you are typing from, and
to multiplex virtual terminals on a single serial line.

Screen is capable of displaying two composed terminals at once.

-- 
Jon Dowland
http://jon.dowland.name/


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