Re: screen on cygwin

[Sami Samhuri]

* It was Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 04:31:53PM +0200 when Alexander Bruns said:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running Cygwin on Windows 2000. I want to use the screen-command but 
> with cygwin, the screen-software is not available.
 
Just about an hour ago I was doing this exact thing.
 
[...]
> Now I can run screen within the cygwin-shell directly and within the 
> cygwin-shell opend by ssh from a remote computer.
> 
> I can detatch from the screen.
> 
> But when I want te teattach the screen, the screen-command does not work. 
> Sometimes it dies after a long period of time. Othervise I have to press 
> STRG-ALT-DEL to terminate the screen-4.0.2.exe binary.
 
I found a website that has a port of screen for cygwin, but only for
version 3.9.10. The author of the site has/had the same problem as you.
 
> Is there any way to get screen work under cygwin. I am used to use screen 
> on our Linux-Boxes and want to use it in cygwin.

If you're fine using 3.9.10, check out this website it has the sources
and a pre-compiled binary available.

    http://dellelce.com/code/screen/

I haven't used it much yet (the laptop I have windows on is more or less
just a dedicated MSN messenger machine) but it seems to be working well.

-- 
Sami Samhuri

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