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From: anw@nott-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: inheriting processes from other ttys
Message-ID: <553@tuck.nott-cs.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 14:50:47 GMT
References: <1707@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <990@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Reply-To: anw@nott-cs.UUCP (Dr A. N. Walker)
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The University, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 2RD, UK.
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In article <990@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
>In article <1707@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, rjchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Raymond Juimong Chen) writes:
>> That is, if the process were an editor, I should be able to resume my
>> editor session on the new terminal with no ill effects.
>
>Let's just hope the terminal type is the same as on the old terminal!

    In any half-way decent editor (or other terminal-dependent program), there
    should be a command to reset the terminal type.  There certainly is in the
    Nottingham version of "ed";  and very useful it is when editing termcap
    entries, in particular.
--
Andy Walker, Maths Dept, Nottm Univ, UK.
anw@maths.nott.ac.uk