Re: [screen-devel] screen refuses to launch with "screen number"

[Sadrul Habib Chowdhury]

* Christian Ebert had this to say on [18 Feb 2010, 16:20:12 +0100]:
> * Sadrul Habib Chowdhury on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 10:01:09 -0500
> > * Christian Ebert had this to say on [18 Feb 2010, 13:58:03 +0100]:
> >> I'm using latest git revision of screen. In one of the latest
> >> changesets launching screen with e.g. "screen 4 [program]"
> >> stopped to work -- still works from within screen.
> >> 
> >> Any suspects or should I bisect?
> > 
> > I could only reproduce this problem when the client screen (i.e. the
> > screen in 'screen 4 [program]') is of a different version from the
> > screen server it tries to connect to (both are 4.1.0devel, but of
> > different revisions)
> 
> Definitely not the case here.
> 
> > Using the same revision, both the following rc works:
> > 
> > screen 4 man man
> 
> Once screen is running, yes. Does it work as _first_ rc command
> too? Not for me.
> 
> Sorry for being dense or unclear, but I meant starting from a
> term and screen not running:
> 
> $ echo $STY
> 
> $ screen 4 man man
> 
> Then I get:
> 
> | Cannot exec '4': no such file or directory

Oh, I don't believe that's supposed to work (in current or old versions).

Sadrul