Re: Q: how do I open xterm, run command, and continue manual input?

From: Floyd Davidson (floyd_at_barrow.com)
Date: 07/27/03 

Date: 26 Jul 2003 16:59:25 -0800

Alan Connor <xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx> wrote:
>On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 22:57:31 GMT, Alan Connor <xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 26 Jul 2003 14:07:01 -0800, Floyd Davidson <floyd@barrow.com> wrote:

Why did you leave an attribution for me, when nothing I said was
quoted?

>Well, the difference in usage between running screen on a seperate tty
>and an xterm is minimal.

I'm not sure what you intended the above to say. It is too
ambiguous to mean anything. What do you mean by "usage"?

>However, multiple xterms uses MASSIVE resources compared to the windows
>in screen, and what's the point?

Multiple xterms do not use "MASSIVE resources". I've got 512Mb
of RAM in the box I'm working with right now, and it would be a
bit silly to configure it as if it had 20 Mb and couldn't handle
another xterm (or 40 of them for that matter).

I just checked to see, and invoking bash ten times eats up 444k
per instance. Invoking xterm + bash adds all of 326k per xterm,
so xterm's "MASSIVE resources" amount to 0.06% of my RAM.

Does that put it in perspective?

>So you can have a carnival on the screen and impress the computer-illiterate?

Some people do, but my screen is very dull looking, and is
designed to be very utilitarian. Of course, I've been working
on it for more than a decade, so the fact that it is efficient
without the excess garbage that you might end up with isn't
really surprising.

>They don't work any better, and you can still use the mouse to cut and paste
>between screen-terms or screen-terms and X applications....

If you are running X with a modern cpu, 100 gigs of disk drive,
and 1/2 a gig of RAM, why would you want to cripple the machine
by trying to be sparse with resources that are not in short
supply?

I don't get any thrill out of doing computer work with the least
disk space, the least cpu cycles, the least RAM usage, or any of
that. I do get a reward for using less of my time to do the
same amount of work by effectively using resources that I
purchased when I put the computer together. 

-- 
Floyd L. Davidson           <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)                         floyd@barrow.com

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