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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Background processes on logout
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.092010.8386@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 91 09:20:10 GMT
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In article <1991Mar12.024121.9114@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>, t891368@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Mark) writes:
|> Question:
|>  Is there a way of recovering the job to the foreground.? It doesnt exists
|>  on 'jobs' (using tcsh on 4.3BSD) and usually I just kill -9 <pid>
|>  Can I regain control of it?

  No, not unless you used the "screen" package (see comp.sources.unix
archives) or something similar to start up your shells in a way that allows
them to be detached from and reattached to your terminal.

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