restoring a suspended job from a different terminal

Dan_Jacobson at ATT.COM Dan_Jacobson at ATT.COM
Tue May 28 22:40:39 AEST 1991


>>>>> On 27 May 91 16:34:36 GMT, vadi at iastate.edu (Elumalai Vadivelu) said:

Elumalai> Is it possible to restore a suspended job from a different terminal.

Elumalai> For example, I am suspending a job on tty1, later I want to
Elumalai> restore (bring to foreground)that suspended job on a
Elumalai> different terminal tty2. Is there a way to do that?

Check out "screen" by Oliver Laumann (ftp
prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/screen-2.1.tar.Z (works on Berkeley style
UNIXes)).  It even lets you logoff, log back in, and get your windows
back.



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