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From: anthony@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
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Subject: Re: Explanation needed.
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Date: 5 Mar 91 03:30:47 GMT
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In article <1991Mar4.025618.29347@cs.cmu.edu> ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) writes:
>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....

Something like this capability is in "screen" a multiple virtual vt100
window program for ASCII terminals.  The program can be detached from
the ttys it created, then started up again reattaching to the same
ttys.  It's great for slow computers that take forever to start up some
programs.  It's better in some ways than "window" in that it emulates a
vt100, but doesn't allow more than one window with no overlapping.
"screen" is available from prep.ai.mit.edu.

Obhack:
	A peer to peer file transfer system for Novell Netware
	...written in batch language.
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