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Subject: Re: Screen3.2 terminal emulator trouble
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In article <93017.121725BAB127@psuvm.psu.edu> bab <BAB127@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
> I have been using the screen program for a couple of years on a DEC
> Station without and trouble but when I compiled the version for
> 386bsd I get a message like $ *csh at the bottom when I try to switch
> w/ Ctrl-A 1. I get the feeling that this is because there are no
> available tty's to change to but I don't know how to add them.

What this means is that there is no screen 1.  Probably, you have a
..screenrc on your DECstation and are used to having more than one
screen open by default.