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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!wupost!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: 386BSD questions, as compared to Linux In-Reply-To: cflatter@nrao.edu's message of Mon, 20 Jul 1992 20:27:26 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.92Jul20184236@kappa.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <9207201731.AA03509@cs.utexas.edu> <1992Jul20.202726.2245@nrao.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 00:42:36 GMT Lines: 17 In article <1992Jul20.202726.2245@nrao.edu> cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters) writes: In article AA03509@cs.utexas.edu, STDN%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Dan Newcombe) writes: >I have a few question now that 0.1 is here and I can run it on my >no387 computer. > > 1) Does BSD support multiple logins at once. Linux allows you to >switch between 4 terminals using Alt F1-F4. Can I still do this >in BSD? I'm pretty sure that you can't. You can probably get the functionality you want from by getting hold of the screen-2.1c package from prep.ai.mit.edu and compiling it for 386BSD (I think that it should go with minimal effort but, on the other hand, I haven't tried it). screen sources and executable are included in the etcdist part of the 0.1 distribution. Rich --