I’m about to make your day
If you have always wanted the functionality of GNU Screen for your win32 box but couldn’t get the win32 port to do the detach/reattach portion correctly then your not alone. And thanks to the power of open source some guy created a stripped down version called dtach that doesn’t have all the fancy stuff. This version just so happens to compile and run perfectly on cygwin. It might even do it correctly on just a mingw32 setup. What this means is that you can now run detached terminal sessions on your windows box. I’ve provided the binary for you to use if you’re interested.
dtach
Example shortcut to use it
July 2nd, 2006 at 4:46 pm
huh?
April 14th, 2007 at 12:45 am
Thanks… I wrote a guide on my page of how to set up an SSH server for Windows with Cygwin and the idea was that it would also explain how to run irssi inside screen, but as there is not (yet, certainly there will be if the functionality has gotten to work on dtach) working screen for cygwin then dtach will be a great solution, although even if it allows detaching and later continuing with a program you still have to take several connections or keep detaching and attaching dtach sessions (you can run multiple number of them, right?) to change a program unlike with screen where you can have many many programs inside screen (and even split the screen in two parts to see two programs on one terminal at once (I used that trick to run centericq (IM client) and irssi on one screen….
Anyway, thanks… I use Linux and have, of course, screen, but for my friend who wanted and SSH server and wants to run irssi so that it keeps in the background even if he disconnects, and he will certainly be happy to hear about dtach…