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From: net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann)
Subject: [unix-questions] Re: attaching a job, changing the tty of a process
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.050034.22142@ox.com>
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Keywords: attach, tty, process, background, foreground
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1991 05:00:34 GMT
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Archive-name: unix/terminal/screen/1991-02-27
Archive: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/screen-2.1.tar.Z [18.71.0.38]
Original-posting-by: net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann)
Original-subject: Re: attaching a job, changing the tty of a process
Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)

In article <1991Feb27.034224.8021@Neon.Stanford.EDU> hitt@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Hitt) writes:
> Given a job running on a terminal, how can it be moved to another terminal?
> 
> For example, person A may be running some interactive program P on
> terminal X, when person B comes up and needs to use terminal X.

The `screen' window manager that was posted to comp.sources.misc long
ago and is now available via FTP on prep.ai.mit.edu (gnu/screen-2.1.tar.Z)
has a function to `detach' processes running under control of screen
and to resume them at a later point in time (possibly on a different
terminal).

--
Oliver Laumann    net@tub.cs.tu-berlin.de  net@tub.UUCP  net@pogo.ai.mit.edu


PS: I can't believe that Dan Berstein hasn't posted another plug for
`pty' yet; there must be something wrong with our newsfeed :-)