Re: Question: Multiple terminal remote access

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (May 12), Rick Niles said:
> I have a NCurses application running in shed out on a airport runway. 
> I would like to view the screen that displaying currently from the
> comfort of a airport office via telnet.  Obviously, if this was
> started remotely, I could check on it.  However, it's something we
> plan to run for weeks to months at a time, so we don't really want to
> start it remotely.  Also, there's advantages of having it display
> inside the shed as well.
> 
> We use to use QNX which had this command "ditto".  It would allow you
> to temporarily take control of a particular console tty and the then
> release it when you're done with it.  That way you could "see" the
> screen from another location and even make changes, and then release
> it.  It seems quite useful for this application.

Take a look at screen ( http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/screen.html ).  
That lets you create a session that can be attached and detached from
as many terminals as you want.  It has its own ANSI terminal emulator
on the backend and uses curses on the frontend, so you can attach any
terminal type to a screen session and the screen will send the
appropriate escape sequences.  Detach all the terminals, and the
session will run headless until you reattach to it.

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        Dan Nelson
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