[TUHS] Re: Job Control and other terminal fun

[Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>]

Ralph Corderoy wrote in
 <20230130170028.AFF8C1FB2F@orac.inputplus.co.uk>:
 |> IBM in the AIX that ran on the 370/PS2/i860 had a device called the
 |> High Function Terminal that allowed you to swap screens on the
 |> console.
 ...
 |> I got intrigued by the fact on those systems you could have a “shell”
 |> that persisted across logins and could be detached and reattached on
 |> another device at another time.  I set about making such an
 |> implementation.  Not particularly efficient, it essentially grabbed
 ...
 |It sounds like what screen(1), byobu(1), tmux(1), etc., do today except

To mention dtach(1) which only "emulates the detach feature of
screen".  (I use it on the vserver to run an ip(8) netns /
unshare(1) etc boxed irssi proxy that serves to the inside VPN.
Flawless for many years.)

--steffen
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