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<blockquote data-quote="cazabam" data-source="post: 345753" data-attributes="member: 17895">There are a couple of ways to achieve this on OS X. The first is to install iTerm, which is a Terminal.app replacement that supports 'tabbing'. This is a nice GUI way to do it.The other way (that I prefer) is to use a program called 'screen' that, iirc, comes installed by default. Just type 'screen' at the command prompt and you will get ... a blank terminal window. Pressing Ctrl-A then ? will bring up a list of keystrokes or you could read a tutorial like <a href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Using_screen" target="_blank">this one</a>.My preferred program is screen because, with a simple press of ctrl-A then D, you can 'detach' it. This leaves everything running in the background and you can 'reconnect' it later by running 'screen -r'. This is how i manage to never log off IRC - I have a machine that I never shut down or put to sleep running screen. Whenever I want to use IRC, I use ssh to access the machine then screen -r to reconnect to the terminal where I left off, even if that's at another computer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cazabam, post: 345753, member: 17895"] There are a couple of ways to achieve this on OS X. The first is to install iTerm, which is a Terminal.app replacement that supports 'tabbing'. This is a nice GUI way to do it. The other way (that I prefer) is to use a program called 'screen' that, iirc, comes installed by default. Just type 'screen' at the command prompt and you will get ... a blank terminal window. Pressing Ctrl-A then ? will bring up a list of keystrokes or you could read a tutorial like [url=http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Using_screen]this one[/url]. My preferred program is screen because, with a simple press of ctrl-A then D, you can 'detach' it. This leaves everything running in the background and you can 'reconnect' it later by running 'screen -r'. This is how i manage to never log off IRC - I have a machine that I never shut down or put to sleep running screen. Whenever I want to use IRC, I use ssh to access the machine then screen -r to reconnect to the terminal where I left off, even if that's at another computer. [/QUOTE]

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