"screen" alternative

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Jan 26 13:44:30 PST 2006


In the last episode (Jan 26), Grzegorz Danecki said:
> I'm running 5.4 Stable and I'm looking for something, that can let me
> detach my session leaving my software running. First thought -
> "screen", but hey, there is no screen package in ports collection :(
> Google says something that it was removed due to high cpu utilization
> few releases ago. Is this true? Are there any alternatives? Because
> as I can remember screen was frequently used and highly appreciated
> application.

Still is.  The port has always built fine; it's just the precompiled
package that people had problems with.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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