Raul, Screen is a program that enables you to run multiple programs frrom a single terminal or vertual console. I use it all the time. it is very useful. To use it, just type "screen" and press enter at your Linux prompt. This will start screen off You will see a new prompt. You can now run any program. When you want to start another program from the same terminal without quitting the first one type control-a, c. This will give you a blank screen with a prompt. start your second program. When you want to switch back to the first, type control-a, 0. If you want to start still a third program, type control-a, c. This will create yet another blank screen with a prompt in which you can run a program. You can have up to ten screens on the same terminal. I hpe this gives you the idea. There is documentation on the screen utility, but it takes you through all the options before explaining how to simply get started using it. John On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > Rafael Skodlar,,, said the following on Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 12:33:20PM -0700: > > Use ssh in place of telnet and scp in place of ftp. That way your > > communication is encrypted all the way. It is possible to setup > > authentication so that you do not need to type the password each time > > you connect to the remote machine. I leave ssh connection open from work > > to my home system over T-1 and DSL all day long. I also use a utility > > screen which allows me to switch between numerous virtual terminals all > > under single ssh session. > > Can you tell me what utility this is? I'm interested. Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703