Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM (03/14/91)
Archive-name: unix/terminal/screen/1991-03-13 Archive: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/screen-2.1.tar.Z [18.71.0.38] Original-posting-by: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Original-subject: Re: One user's editor wish list Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) >>>>> On 12 Mar 91 23:09:24 GMT, leech@vangogh.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan >>>>> Leech) said: J> Probably the nicest thing about VMS I encountered was that it J> detached and preserved jobs - including editor sessions - when the J> network connection dropped. With Oliver Laumann's "screen" program [from comp.sources.unix archives, FTPable from e.g., uunet.uu.net] with my up to 10 windows I can reconnect after a hang up, or disconnect, walk to a groovier office, then reconnect. Cursor stays just where it was, etc. [Compiles on Sun/BSD.] -- Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708 979 6364