[comp.sources.wanted] Need latest version of screen.

frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) (02/07/91)

Like many other people out there I have found screen to be one of the most
useful programs around.  Unfortunately, nobody seems to keep track of
its progress.  I am looking for the latest greatest version of screen.
I have version 2.3 pre 7 from June of 90.  It has screen logging and such
but I would like to see where it stands now.  Is it out of pre- status yet?

I should mention that this version was not done by the original author as he
had not heard of it.  I sent it to him though.  So where are we and where can
I get it?

	ian

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net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann) (02/07/91)

In article <1991Feb6.173639.14129@csn.org> frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes:
> Like many other people out there I have found screen to be one of the most
> useful programs around.  Unfortunately, nobody seems to keep track of
> its progress.  I am looking for the latest greatest version of screen.
> I have version 2.3 pre 7 from June of 90.

This is not an `official' version of screen (i.e. a version maintained
by the author).  The most recent official release (screen 2.1a) can be
obtained by anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu (pub/gnu/screen-2.1a.tar.Z).
screen 2.1a is distributed under the terms of the GNU copyleft.

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frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) (02/08/91)

In article <2581@kraftbus.cs.tu-berlin.de> net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann) writes:
>In article <1991Feb6.173639.14129@csn.org> frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes:
>> I have version 2.3 pre 7 from June of 90.
>This is not an `official' version of screen (i.e. a version maintained
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>Oliver Laumann    net@tub.cs.tu-berlin.de   net@tub.UUCP   ol@ai.mit.edu

Your right.. I see that now.  Unfortunately it is apparently not what I am
looking for.  Screen 2.3-7 has some VERY nice features and I will continue
to use it.  I have gotten my hands on a couple versions more closely 
related to the `official' version and none of them have 

screen logging
activity monitor
window aliasing  (can put a name on a window)
last status bar message indicator
built in HELP window
or ablility to specify shell in .screenrc
load personalized termcap

I appreaciate your original but I would like to see more progress along the 
lines of 2.3-7.  I can even recall where in the hell I got 2.3-7.  I think
someone just sent it to me. ;)  ah well, suchislife.

	ian
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net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann) (02/08/91)

In article <1991Feb7.181551.965@csn.org> frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes:
> I have gotten my hands on a couple versions more closely 
> related to the `official' version and none of them have 
> 
> screen logging

You don't need this, as you can use script(1).

> last status bar message indicator

screen 2.1a has this.

> built in HELP window

screen 2.1a has this.

> load personalized termcap

How does this work?

> I appreaciate your original but I would like to see more progress along the 
> lines of 2.3-7.  I can even recall where in the hell I got 2.3-7.

You can try to contact Wayne Davison <davison@drivax.uucp>; he developed
at least an early version of the screen you are using.

The reason why I didn't want to make this version of screen the official
version is that, in my personal opinion, it is overloaded with too many
features, many of them of questionable utility.

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clive@aisnet.co.uk (Clive Chinery ) (02/10/91)

In article <1991Feb6.173639.14129@csn.org> frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU writes:
>Like many other people out there I have found screen to be one of the most
>useful programs around.  Unfortunately, nobody seems to keep track of
>its progress.  I am looking for the latest greatest version of screen.
>I have version 2.3 pre 7 from June of 90.  It has screen logging and such
>but I would like to see where it stands now.  Is it out of pre- status yet?
>I should mention that this version was not done by the original author as he
>had not heard of it.  I sent it to him though.  So where are we and where can
>I get it? ian
 Yes screen is very useful, but has anybody ported to run with *ANY* terminal
type -- we do not use the terminal type that has been hard coded into it.
 
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yedidya@bimacs.BITNET (Yedidya Israel) (02/10/91)

In article <2581@kraftbus.cs.tu-berlin.de> net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann) writes:
>In article <1991Feb6.173639.14129@csn.org> frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) writes:
>> Like many other people out there I have found screen to be one of the most
>> useful programs around.  Unfortunately, nobody seems to keep track of
>> its progress.  I am looking for the latest greatest version of screen.
>> I have version 2.3 pre 7 from June of 90.
>
>This is not an `official version of screen (i.e. a version maintained
>by the author).  The most recent official release (screen 2.1a) can be
>obtained by anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu (pub/gnu/screen-2.1a.tar.Z).
>screen 2.1a is distributed under the terms of the GNU copyleft.

The version I use is 2.3-PreRelease7 19-jun-90.
I do not remember from where I ftped it, but you can ask the author,
as signed in the README file.

        Wayne Davison <davison%drivax@uunet.uu.net>

        (...!uunet!drivax!davison)

I am glad to use the bulletin to thank again the author for the useful
program.
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