Re: Job Control?

["Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@ccs.neu.edu>]

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On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 bwarsing@intergate.bc.ca wrote:

> Got a quick one.
> How do I get a particular transfer control of a particular PID to
> another ttyX or xterm?
> Don't think I've ever read anything about this.

There is a utility called 'screen' to handle this.  It's packaged for 
Debian.  You'd run your program in a screen session in one window ('screen
mutt' for example).  You could then detach the screen session from that
window using CTRL-A CTRL-D.  The process is still running, but not in the
original xterm or virtual console.  Then, from another tty, you could do a
'screen -r' to re-attache the screen session to the current tty.

I don't know of any other way to do something like this.

HTH,
noah


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