Title: screen.scm Description: Screen Version: 4.0.3 Author: Oliver Laumann, Wayne Davison, Juergen Weigert and Michael Schroeder. Original-site: http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ Copying-policy: GPLv2 Size: 1.3MB Extension_by: Jason W (info file used from Althalus) Tags: Screen Comments: " Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. " -- From GNU Screen website Basically, screen allows you to create virtual terminals You can disconnect from a screen session and reconnect from somewhere else while preserving your shell and other running processes (mail/irc/bit torent/long builds, etc). You can also have more than one connection to a session, or allow other users to connect to your same session. It's also handy for working over a shaky connection - your apps stay running if your session gets interupted. And this is only the tip of the iceberg! Chnage-log: ---- Current: 2012/07/14 First version 4.0.3