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The screen tool is most commonly used with irc clients. What it<br />
actually does is makes the program run in the background and then<br />
resume later. For this example im going to use the irssi irc<br />
client. First you need to start a term and type the following:<br />
<br />
screen -S irc<br />
<br />
Now the -S means what to call the actual session name. Now we have a<br />
session started, now lets launch irssi:<br />
<br />
irssi<br />
<br />
Now we see the normal screen and this is nothing new. Now press<br />
ctrl-a-d. Now your session has now gone away. Now say you want to come<br />
back later on another ssh session? well this is possible!:<br />
<br />
screen -r irc<br />
<br />
This now shows the session of irssi. Now isn't that COOL :). This is<br />
useful for all programs as well not just irc.</div>Erik