Thanks everyone for the thoughtful responses. The "session insurance" for dropped links is definitely attractive. I'm worried I don't spend enough time on the prompt to fully integrate tmux or screen into my workflow but I think I'll give it the college try based on your feedback. -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120410/f41fac19/attachment.html>