On 12/1/97 at 1:10 PM -0500, Benoit MARTEL <magus@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:

> On the other hand, screen cannot change any properties of the console
> like dt does. dt reverses video on the console and allows cut-and-paste
> using the mouse (very cool) for example.

It sounds like Balazs is telnetting into his NetBSD box, in which case he
can use the cut and paste provided by MacOS, or Winblows, or whatever he's
telnetting from. And, of course, vi (and I suppose emacs) supports built in
cut and paste.

> screen is part of GNU, try
> http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/gnu/screen-3.7.4.tar.gz
> if you want to see the difference.

screen is also part of the package system:

/usr/pkgsrc/misc/screen/

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