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[Jay Ashworth]

> Once you're not on serial, so it's possible to have multiple independent
> sessions coming from one PC, what is the advantage of working in screen? I
> seriously want to know.

You generally only want to be logged in as one person, and if you run screen
(or tmux, which is slowly becoming my preference), you don't have to *log in*
for each new session: in fact, you can launch sessions with predefined things
in them.

> I typically work with several Anzio windows open. Each one is
> independently positionable. I can Ctrl-tab between them in a cycle. If
> I wanted, I could assign macros to SWITCHTO a particular window by its
> title.

Sure.  It's a SCO console reflex.  But a strong one.


> > In fact, I believe Putty has a knob to determine how META is
> > encoded.
> 
> I don't think that's what META us. The link I found related to ncurses
> talked about turning on and off meta mode in the terminal, using the
> 'smm' and 'rmm' terminfo features. Neither of these capabilities exist in my
> terminfo entries for VT320 or VT420, for instance.

Meta has different meanings.  *Many* different meanings.

> However, in the online help for YaST, on this page:
> http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse111/opensuse111_reference/?page=/documentation/opensuse111/opensuse111_reference/data/sec_yast_ncurses_tasten.html
> 
> it says:
> Replacing Alt with Esc
> Alt shortcuts can be executed with Esc instead of Alt. For example,
> Esc+H
> replaces Alt+H. (First press Esc, then press H.)
> 
> So you may be conflating :-) Nevertheless, it looks like a good option
> for Anzio.

I don't think so.  If your channel is 8-bit clean[1], switch PuTTY to "Meta
sets the high bit", and I believe Yast will still work as expected; this
is Curses level processing, not termcap.  I *think*.

Cheers,
-- jra 
[1]I'm sure ssh qualifies; I don't think telnet does.
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