Re: First release of screen
Axel Beckert <[email protected]>
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Hi, On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 10:58:44AM +0200, Guillaume Quintin wrote: > Someone told me that screen was very young as a program. > I went to check here: > > I saw screen v3.7.1 and it was in 1996 so I guess screen is much older. It is. > Do you know approximatively the year of the first release of screen? Screen recently had its 25th birthday and is hence older than Linux. See this Usenet posting from 1987 for its initial announcement: https://groups.google.com/group/net.sources/browse_thread/thread/e55f5059d2329d36 Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News | [email protected] (Mail) X See http://www.asciiribbon.org/ | [email protected] (Mail+Jabber) / \ I love long mails: http://email.is-not-s.ms/ | http://noone.org/abe/ (Web)