Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: RTPAD, etc Message-ID: <8131@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 15:40:22 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8131 Posted: Thu Jun 13 15:40:22 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Jun-85 04:47:15 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 16 From: *Hobbit* A neat [and as yet undocumented] feature of the Wollongong TCP software is that if you spawn Telnet as a subprocess and later suspend it [ ^]Z ], it will look around for its parent process and reattach to it. You can then do something else in your top-level DCL and then do ATTACH to return to your Telnet session, perhaps to find output from the remote system buffered for you all along. It seems to me that building such a mechanism into RTPAD itself would be pretty easy, if DEC could be made to see the elegance of escape characters. This would punt the need for a lot of grodey driver hacking, as well, since disconnection wouldn't be involved at all. _H* -------