Copyright © 2002 David Pashley
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| Revision 0.1 | 24 May 2002 |
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Abstract
Screen is a full screen window manager for text terminals. It has powerful features including the ability for several console sessions to share a single pseudo-terminal. It also allows you to detach from the controllig terminal and reattach from a different terminal. This tutorial will explain some of the basic features of the program.
running screen gives you a blank console window with a shell prompt. You can now start using the power of screen Using windows ctrl-a c: creates a new window ctrl-a 0: change to window number ctrl-a 9: logging out of the terminal will close that window if you need to kill a window, you can use ctrl-a k and confirm the action
