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On Sep 17, 2004 at 12:05, Nifty Hat Mitch in a soothing rage wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:02:28AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 17:33, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
>> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:54:03AM -0400, Neil Cherry wrote:
>> > > Andrea Giuliano wrote:
>> > ....
>> > > Vi is good to know when memory is limited or over a bad dial up line.
>> > > </humor>
>> > 
>> > Bad modem line -- check into "screen" ... should you get disconnected
>> > you are not out of luck....  You can reconnect...
>> 
>> I like screen, but that function only works when you do a detach right?
>> Ctrl-A-D?
>> 
>> Will it work if you're suddenly disconected as well?? Never tried that
>
>Try it, rlogin, ssh, telnet....
I can confirm it does work over ssh when you are disconnected.
You just have to give it a bit of time and then reconnect with
'screen -r'. I also use it when I want to start compiling a big
job and I am in between PCs...

N.Emile...
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