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How does a screen work?

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572 points chkhd | 1 comments | 13 Jul 25 14:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.493s | source
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nu11ptr ◴[13 Jul 25 16:51 UTC] No.44551711[source]▶
Am I the only one who read this as the terminal program "screen" (the terminal multiplexer)?
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1. vicurve ◴[13 Jul 25 17:17 UTC] 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.