graphical (ppp/slip) access?

Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 03:19:16 -0300
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@cue.bc.ca>
To: CSuite Development List <csuite-dev@chebucto.ns.ca>

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On May 18,  3:20am, Edward Dyer wrote:
} 
} Personally, I use a mixture of text (telnet and lynx) and graphics
} (Netscape etc.) depending on what is available at the location where I am
} at the time.  The biggest advantage for me (when working with ppp or
} direct net connection) is having a browser (graphical and/or text) and
} e-mail open simultaneously, and a network utility to do NS lookups, whois,
} etc, and an ftp client.  Sure speeds up resolving those mail problems. 
} But at home I just have a straight text dial-in to CCN's Lynx-based
} interface, and use copy/paste to a workpage in "Notepad" to keep track
} when I go from mail to lynx to... and back.

     The easiest way to deal with this problem would be to use screen.
You install it on the host and it gives you up to ten virtual
terminals (screens) which you switch between using a control key.  It
works great.  You can get it from GNU mirror.

}-- End of excerpt from Edward Dyer

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