> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 18:00:19 +0100
> From: Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: vc scrollback
>
> >On Sun, 8 Oct 1995, Axel Boldt wrote:
> >> I believe the whole vc system is fundamentally flawed. It is not the
> >> kernel's business to do console scrolling or console switching. That's
> >> to be done by a user process, namely by screen, available from all GNU
> >> sites. It multiplexes a character terminal, giving you all the
>
> Others have mentioned other things, I have only one question:
> - Does 'screen' give me a login: prompt? (I've never tried 'screen' myself)
> I use the VCs for the purpose of different people sharing a single PC.
Yea. bind it to run login. I have a hotkey bound to various rlogins
on my local network. Makes simple when I can pop over to the news server
in 2 keys. (+password)
Dan Merillat <Dan.Merillat@eola.accessorl.net>
Animaniac! Linux Activist and net.junkie
Also at: <drm89121@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>