[Info-vax] Boss

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-01-22 05:44:11 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:

> I'm experimenting with BOSS.  This is a VAX-era program which allows 
> one to switch between multiple processes.

screen and tmux are the equivalents, and these are available on most 
recent systems...
https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki


Maybe minicom, which is handy if you need remote access to serial consoles.
https://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom


Some other toys...
https://github.com/skavanagh/KeyBox
http://onethingwell.org/post/2924103615/reptyr
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/move-running-process-screen-bruce-werdschinski
https://github.com/jtesta/ssh-mitm
http://ganglia.info
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/



Some folks at DEC used the SSU session support utility and sometimes 
long timeouts on disconnected virtual terminals akin to what BOSS 
provides, but that and thoughts akin to BOSS largely disappeared when 
workstations arrived (with multiple windows and/or tabs) and as screen 
and later tmux became available.   OpenVMS stopped being the front end 
system (though you're still using it that way), and the available 
clients had and have better capabilities.





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