G. Crimp wrote: > I am in an interrogative mood this evening. There are two things > that have often caught my eye when cruising the dselect selection > browser. The screen package is one. From the description it seems to > me to be pretty much the same thing as the virtual terminals that come > part and parcel with Linux. Are they the same, or do they provide > something the VT's don't ?
Screen is useful becuase you can use it in situation where you're not at the console -- telnet to a remote host and run screen therem run it in your xterm, or from a dumb terminal. It also has additional handy features, most notable is the ability to "detach" the programs running under screen, and reattach to them later, from elsewhere. > How does one read the version numbers in the dselect window ? Eg., > gsfonts 4.01-5. What does the -5 stand for ? It's the debian version number. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
