attaching a terminal to 'join' another?

[Matthew Seaman]

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Jim Stapleton wrote:

> I would like to have workstation terminal B intercept workstation
> terminal A, or main desktop terminal B intercept main desktop terminal
> A. Can it be done? Where do I start looking, what are the words and
> phrases of interest? I tried looking at both the bash and xterm
> commands/man page, but they are rather long, and I'd miss what I was
> looking for without having a clue in advance.

The program you need is screen(1).  http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
It's in ports: sysutils/screen

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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