[Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

[Kevin H. <kho...@ro...>]

At 22:15 -0600 26/3/05, Robert T Wyatt wrote:
>Understood everything but this (and thanks for the comments):
>
>Chris Zubrzycki wrote:
>>Use screen
>
>


I use screen quite a bit, as it puts the fink install stuff in the 
background, rather than having it continually update a Terminal 
window.  I can also log in from my laptop to see how things are going 
with the install on the main computer.

To start a new screen session:
screen -R

To save the output from the current session to a log file:
Ctrl-a H

To stop logging:
Ctrl-a H

To detach the current screen session (i.e. return to the original 
Terminal window, but have whatever was going on in screen continue, 
unseen):
Ctrl-a d

To reattach a screen session (from the same computer, or from another 
one that you are ssh'd in from):
screen -R

There are many more options - see man screen.