I'm no expert on this, but a pty is a "pseudo tty", that is, a fake one,
and is what is used by pretty much anything that gives you a shell over
a network. A real tty is directly attached via hardware to the
computer. svgalib no doubt requires the ability to access direct
hardware or somesuch
The connections you are trying to preserve are handled by ssh, and have
nothing to do with screen. They require a constant connection, and
AFAIK cannot be put into suspended animation as you describe because
they require constant communication between the server and your laptop.
When the lapt
A way around this would be to redirect the program output to a file,
and then use 'tail -f logfile' to actually display it in screen. If
you enter copy mode, it would stop the tail -f, not the running
program. Command line could look like this:
myprogram > logfile & tail -f logfile
Roge
Sam Cramer wrote:
I'm trying to write a script to start a screen session with multiple
telnet windows to a terminal server. The name of the terminal server
varies, as does the number of windows, so this isn't something I can
do by just adding some lines to my .screenrc.
I tried creating a scree
