[PLUG] Dividing up a console screen

Jeme A Brelin jeme at brelin.net
Wed Oct 20 18:02:01 UTC 2004


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> I'm on a roll today it appears.  Is there a package for doing
> pseudo-windows in a console screen?  Curses is the ticket but I hoping
> for something that made it easier ... like the old 4DOS package did.

You want screen.

<URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ >

But if you want to view them simultaneously, well, I'm not sure how one
could do that.  Screen only creates full-screen windows.

Hmm... what would be the negative effects of building screen functionality
into bash?

J.
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