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Subject: Re: Suspending login shell - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 4-Sep-83 00:06:12 EDT
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pur-phy!crl    Aug 27 22:14:00 1983

TOPS-20 (Twenex) loses your terminal type on a detach/attach.
With UNIX, it would probably be possible to have a .attach or
a .continue file (analogous to the .login/.cshrc/.logout) to handle
the change of terminal.  Of course, stopped jobs would lose, but
oh well.

On the TOPS-10 system at Worcester Polytechnic Inst. before they
got a 20, a feature called "freeze" was installed.  With it, one
could suspend a process into a file and continue at any later
date.  The restart was invisible--except for the tty, all open
files were reopened to the right place.  Anyone start on such a
beast?

Charles LaBrec
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