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		ovi256 on April 22, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What I Wish I Had Known About Developing C/C++ Fro... I might be slow about screen, but how is it different from running several tabs in Terminal on Mac OS X for example ? I can see it being useful in ssh through : you can have it emulate tabs through a single ssh connection.

bcl on April 22, 2009 [–]

screen is persistent over dropped connections. Lets say you are doing some long running operations on a remote server and your connection drops. With screen you can log back in and run 'screen -r' to resume the session.

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