The solution was simple- It has to do with some of the settings in my
systems global screenrc file. When I did a local install of screen,
the location where the new screenrc file was read from got changed. I
had to chane my SYSCREENRC variable to point to the corrent location
and things worked. My
I have been using screen 3.09.15 for a long time now and have had
absolutely no complaints. I use it along with Putty from both my
workplace and at home. Recently, I downloaded screen 4.00.02 and
noticed the following things about it-
1. Ctrl-A \ which used to close all the windows and exit scree