Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!mnetor!utgpu!woods
From: woods@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: transferring processes under csh
Message-ID: <1988Sep1.185005.228@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Date: 1 Sep 88 22:50:05 GMT
References: <1074@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <1264@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <5709@cg-atla.UUCP>
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In article <5709@cg-atla.UUCP> duane@cg-atla.UUCP (Andrew Duane) writes:
>In article <1264@mcgill-vision.UUCP>, mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
>> In article <1074@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>, hiebeler@pawl23.pawl.rpi.edu (David Hiebeler) writes:
>> > Does anyone know of a way to transfer processes between different
>> > incantations of csh?
>From my days in college, I remember TOPS-20 (Twenex) being able
>to do just about this. There was the DETACH command that
>detached the current login session from your terminal (there
>was still a command shell running, but not logged in). From
>this same "not-login" shell, there was an ATTACH command that
>would reattach a previously detached session.

If I remember right, Multics does the same kind of thing, though it
would save everything in your session, just like a re-startable core
dump.  Most usefull something bad happens.  I think it would even
work for system crashes, as long as they weren't too fatal.
-- 
						Greg Woods.

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