Tabbed browsers changed the way I use the Internet (and the way most of you do too). Option click to fire up a new tab, Command-Shift-> or < to switch between tabs, forking your threads with new windows, etc. In Leopard, Apple provided the same type of interface to working within the terminal environment for Mac OS X. But this was a concept that had already been around for awhile with Linux and there were also people who had decided that to exit their terminal environment just to switch to another terminal was for the birds and that they’d rather just use GNU Screen, which had been around for years to do the deed. You see, screen has some features that some would consider more desirable than even tabbed terminal browsing (like remotely connecting to a screen session using the -x option).
If you want to use screen, setting up the .screenrc file is going to be the first step you need to complete. To do so