Re: iSSH and Multitasking in iPhone OS 4.0

Let me echo your "screen" comment. I've always used emacs in text mode for low bandwidth window management tho it is not as useful as screen for dropped connections. I have often used emacs under screen.

It is probably worth pointing out that unreliable connections are an old old problem and tools like screen were developed to solve them. Asking iSSH to also solve the same problem might be slightly more convenient but it definitely should be low priority, especially if the face of Apple's intransigence. Eecking out as much as much background activity as possible under Apple guidelines may be counter productive. In the end they may decide it violates their principal by not fitting any of their supported use cases and disallow it anyway.

Also I'm not saying it doesn't happen but I've never seen a UNIX/linix package that didn't have screen installed. It is usually considered a core utility by IT teams that actually decide what is installed, because they need it to provide adequate support.

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Jared Earle <jearle@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Carlos Alvarez <caalvarez@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some of the work we use it for definitely does benefit from running in the background.  My wife is doing this on her jailbroken pad with iSSH.  If we're troubleshooting a server (Asterisk), we may want to gather a few minutes' worth of Asterisk console events, then search/review them.  Without multi-tasking we can't do anything else while waiting for all the events to happen in the console.

Screen. I've said it before and I'll say it again.

http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
http://blog.23x.net/12/ssh-on-the-iphone-at-last.html

No need for an always-on connection.

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