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From: ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
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Subject: Re: Explanation needed.
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.025618.29347@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 91 02:56:18 GMT
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In article <1991Mar3.215703.15745@csusac.csus.edu> emmonsl@athena.ecs.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons) writes:
}In article <10133@sales.GBA.NYU.EDU> elapinsk@sales.GBA.NYU.EDU ('Crazy' Emery Lapinski) writes:
}Yep...output from a program is attached to a tty, not to a user.  So, until
}that program ended, output went to that tty; regardless of whether or not
}anyone was logged onto it or not...As it turned out, completely by chance,
}when you called back you were connected to the same tty that you were just
}on! If someone else had connected to that tty right when you logged off, they
}would have gotten your process' output...

That's one nice thing about the detachable pty's in Mach--if you get 
disconnected, you can later reconnect from the same or a different port.
Of course, things get a little strange if you reconnect from somewhere that
requires a different termcap than the original connection....

Sorry, no ObHack....  I do have some ideas for neat things to do to DESQview,
but they'll have to wait <sigh>.

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