On Sep 17, 2004 at 12:05, Nifty Hat Mitch in a soothing rage wrote: >On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:02:28AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: >> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 17:33, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: >> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:54:03AM -0400, Neil Cherry wrote: >> > > Andrea Giuliano wrote: >> > .... >> > > Vi is good to know when memory is limited or over a bad dial up line. >> > > </humor> >> > >> > Bad modem line -- check into "screen" ... should you get disconnected >> > you are not out of luck.... You can reconnect... >> >> I like screen, but that function only works when you do a detach right? >> Ctrl-A-D? >> >> Will it work if you're suddenly disconected as well?? Never tried that > >Try it, rlogin, ssh, telnet.... I can confirm it does work over ssh when you are disconnected. You just have to give it a bit of time and then reconnect with 'screen -r'. I also use it when I want to start compiling a big job and I am in between PCs... N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 I'm young ... I'm HEALTHY ... I can HIKE THRU CAPT GROGAN'S LUMBAR REGIONS! 15:29:23 up 81 days, 8:44, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
