[HECnet] PyDECnet setup

Instead of screen, consider using tmux. Once I found out about tmux many years ago, I couldn't believe I hadn't been using it. One major advantage - you can connect to the same tmux session from multiple sessions, so you don't have disconnect first to reconnect from somewhere else. It also has handling for mouse and copy/paste, so you can break a tmux window into several panes and scroll with a mouse in each. You can also have named sessions and connect to them by name. I use this with simh so I create a shell script for each machine I run up. They automatically connect to a tmux session called "CONSOLE" Example - here is a script called "start-thomas" which starts up one of my simh vax machines: -- #!/bin/bash cd /root/down/vax/THOMAS tmux has-session -t CONSOLE 2> /dev/null \ && tmux new-window -d -t CONSOLE -n THOMAS '../BIN/vax' \ || tmux new -d -s CONSOLE -n THOMAS '../BIN/vax' -- So basically what this does is check to see if there is already a tmux session called "CONSOLE". If there is, it creates a new window in this session, otherwise it creates the session from scratch I have a file like this for each machine, so I can just fire them up non-interactively from the command line. I then have another script called "console" which has: -- #!/bin/bash tmux a -t CONSOLE -- which just connects to the tmux session called "CONSOLE". I find this really nice - I have a whole series of windows in a single tmux session which I can easily cycle through. It's far superior to screen and more flexible. You could also do the same thing with pyDECnet. It's very easy to have these fire up in a startup script or systemd etc. Cheers, Wiz!!