using screen

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Jan 30, 2008 11:16 PM, William O'Higgins Witteman
<william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I am a generally happy Gnu screen user, but I have run into a problem.
> I am not old-school enough to know what the man page is talking about
> when they say this:
>
> C-a C-s     (xoff)        Send a control-s to the current window.
>
> I just know that it puts my screen instance into a state that I cannot
> return it from.  Can someone tell me how to get my screen instance to
> talk to me again?

Hrmm, dunno about that.  You do know 'screen -ls' and 'screen -r' right?

> Similarly, if I mis-click and hit C-a z, how do I get my session back?

Anytime you put a process into the background, you can return it with 'fg'...
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