inheriting processes from other ttys

[anw at nott-cs.UUCP]

In article <990 at mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse at mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
>In article <1707 at phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, rjchen at 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.
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Andy Walker, Maths Dept, Nottm Univ, UK.
anw at maths.nott.ac.uk