Re: more than 40 screens?

[Juergen Weigert]

On Mar 29, 07 09:24:45 -0500, Michael Parson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:13:19PM -0700, Tom Bombadil wrote:
> > Michael Parson wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 06:17:44PM -0700, Tom Bombadil wrote:
> >>> Hi all...
> >>>
> >>> screen never show more than 40 screens (screens 0 to 39).
> >>> Any way around that?
> >>
> >> Recompile with MAXWIN >40.
> >>
> >> default used to be 10. =)
> >
> > cool. thx!
> >
> > why is the limit so low?
> > Is there any side effect on having lets say, 100 screens?

We started out with maxwin=10, so that 
a) inexperienced users will soon recover from accidently creating 
   more windows than they intended.
b) multiuser machines do not run out of pty's too fast.

An experenced screen user on his private machine may prefer
maxwin=1000; I don't think there are any ill side effects.

        cheers,
                Jw.

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