[GRASS-user] Running v.in.ogr in screen

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, ????? ?????????? wrote:

> out of curiosity, why is screen useful in this case? What other/ more
> advantages using screen are there?

Nikos,

   I can start a script running to import both .e00 files, log out, and go to
sleep for the night while the process crawls along in the background. If I
wanted to stay logged in I could just open another virtual terminal and run
the module there.

Rich