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Re: screen


on Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 03:57:37PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski (pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 
> > on Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 11:25:20AM +0200, Cant (cant_reed@yahoo.com) wrote:
> > > How come when i use screen and i want to detach the screen then re-attach it
> > > again it says this...
> > >
> > > $ screen -r
> > > There is a screen on:
> > > There is no screen to be resumed.
> > > $ ps x
> > >       PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
> > >      3264       1    3264       3264    ? 1012 11:21:33
> > > /home/Cant/screen-3.9.15/screen
> > >      3276    3264    3276       3232    1 1012 11:21:34 /usr/bin/tcsh
> > >       212    3276     212        340    1 1012 11:21:40 /usr/bin/links
> > >      1556    3520    1556       1580    0 1012 11:22:43 /usr/bin/tcsh
> > >      1576    1556    1576       2072    0 1012 11:23:23 /usr/bin/ps
> > > $
> > >
> > > the links is in the screen session and i cant re-attach it in order to get
> > > back to it... ]; any ideas?
> >
> > I'd love to have your problem.  Where'd  you find 'screen'?
> >
> > Try 'screen -ls' to list currently active screen sessions.  It's
> > possible that the cygwin port is borked.
> >
> > Peace.
> 
> There is no Cygwin port (or an official package) of screen.  I posted a
> patch a while ago that would make it compile (and sort of run).  It's
> possible that screen relies on some features that aren't portable.

Ah.  I remember using it at one point, and noting that it didn't work
particularly well....

Peace.

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