>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Fowler ">chrisf@computone.com> writes:
Chris> Whay does screen only use vt100 emulation. Can it not be
Chris> modified to use the emulation that is already on the
Chris> terminal.
Screen behaves like a virtual vt100 to programs running
underneath it and maps the output to the actual terminal it's running
under. Becasue of this, you can start up a screen in an xterm
(TERM=xterm), detach it and reattach on the console of another box
(TERM=linux), detach again and reattach from a sun text mode console
(TERM=sun), . . . and the programs running under screen never need to
be aware that anything's changed. Many programs can't change their
conception of what type of terminal they're talking to without being
restarted.
Chris> Otherwise screen sux.
On the contrary, screen rules (and shows yet another
deficiency of NT (lack of ptys) :). I leave a couple of shells and
emacs/gnus running under it on my box at home and can ssh back in from
anywhere and pick right back up where I left off. Plus the
inter-screen cut and paste and logging comes in handy those times you
forget to run script.
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