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How does a screen work?

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572 points chkhd | 3 comments | | HN request time: 0.868s | source
1. nu11ptr ◴[] No.44551711[source]
Am I the only one who read this as the terminal program "screen" (the terminal multiplexer)?
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2. nyarlathotep_ ◴[] No.44551892[source]
Ha, I did that too.
3. vicurve ◴[] No.44551909[source]
It was 50/50 for me as well but the screen source code is fairly readable and if I remember right eerily over-commented for Unix code! The function names actually make sense.