Get Out Of Jail Free!

[Janina Sajka]

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

> For example, I am in pine, and I would like to open another application in
> another console.
> I would like to press Control+alt+g, and that hotkey to start another
> console with the defined application opened.

Yes there is something like this that's very powerful. It's
called screen. Type 'man screen' to learn about screen.

> 
> Unfortunately this is not possible under Linux, only under Windows.

Wrong again.

Teddy, Teddy, just because you don't know something doesn't mean
it doesn't exist.