Re: how to let the remote server continuously run while I shut down local telnet client?

Robert Hull <Robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Friday 30 Jun 2006 20:44, gino <loseminds@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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"Tyler McHenry" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I hereby accuse Joe Beanfish of stating:

gino wrote:

I think "screen" will let you detach and later reattach from
somewhere else.


Two things screen cannot do:
- sessions cannot persist across reboots (it's not a virtual machine
or anything!)
- cannot detach/reattach X windows

So if you're doing this in a GUI, screen is not going to work for
you, but if this is a CLI process, it's exactly what you want.


thanks a lot! But I am exactly using X-windows. As I said, I am
accessing UNIX/LINUX server from my home PC which is on Windows XP...

Windows XP, although it has X and Windows in the name has nothing to do with X-Windows.

So, from the evidence you are NOT using X-windows.
Now it is possible to run an X emulator on Windows, but you would have to
tell us.



Actually what you said was:

On Friday 30 Jun 2006 07:31, gino <loseminds@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
comp.os.linux.misc:

I use Secure Telnet Shell to telnet to the remote Unix/Linux server to
run Matlab.


Telnet Shell is not the same as X Window and *nowhere* did you mention
Windoze XP

Would you like to give us the *real* facts this time?
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