You can do that with the expect language as well (See
http://www.mel.nist.gov/msidlibrary/doc/libes94f.html if you want to learn
about expect). Seems that Don Libes calls the concept "Kibitzing". I would
imagine that his kibitz script takes up fewer resources than "Screen".
Anyone wanna do a test?
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Sauli Siren wrote:
> >
> > Do you run mprime with KDE? Right now I'm a new user (for Linux) and I
> > want to know if running mprime on Linux is faster than Prime95 on NT.
> >
> Actually I use a nice little utility called screen to run mprime with
> linux. It has the advantage that you can detach it from your current
> virtual console so that it continues to run when you log out. Later you
> can call it back to foreground to check output etc. Very handy.
>
> I don't know anything about NTprime but at some point I did compare mprime
> and prime95 in my computer (AMD K6 overclocked to 208 MHz) and mprime did
> seem to be about 3% faster than prime95. Of course there were no other
> programs running at the time. I understand that generally linux does
> handle multiple processes better than win95/98. But, as said, I don't have
> any information about NT. Anyway, the differences are so small that I
> wouldn't care ;)
>
>
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