Change terminals

[Stephen Hilton]

On 07 Jul 2003 22:35:08 -0700
"Marvin J. Kosmal" <lamsokvr at xprt.net> wrote:

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> Question
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> When you ssh into your work machine from home
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> How or can you change the terminal you are on..
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> example below
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> Last login: Mon Jul  7 22:23:50 2003 from clark.lab
> mkosmal at libranet-lab2:~$ w
>  22:31:55 up 4 days,  8:42,  7 users,  load average: 1.16, 1.03, 1.01
> USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
> mkosmal  :0       -                Thu13   ?xdm?  14:27   4.09s
> /usr/bin/icewm-experimental
> mkosmal  pts/0    :0               Thu13    4days  4days  4days
> ./setiathome
> mkosmal  pts/1    :0               Thu13    4days  0.07s  0.07s -bash
> mkosmal  pts/2    :0.0             Thu15    4days  0.31s  0.28s ssh
> mkosmal at lab
> mkosmal  pts/3    :0.0             Thu16    4days  0.00s  0.00s -bash
> mkosmal  pts/4    :0.0             Thu16    4days  0.04s  0.04s -bash
> mkosmal  pts/5    pdx-ppp374.pop1. 22:31    0.00s  0.04s  0.02s w
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> I did the w.  and am on pts/5
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> How do I get to pts/0??????
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> 
> TIA

Marvin,

Try the program called "screen" in the ports tree at:
/usr/ports/misc/screen

A very usefull utility to allow you to attach and detach from 
terminal sessions. Once you start using it you will never 
go back, like FreeBSD.

Regards,

Stephen Hilton
nospam at hiltonbsd.com