info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (06/13/85)
From: *Hobbit* <AWalker@RUTGERS.ARPA> A neat [and as yet undocumented] feature of the Wollongong TCP software is that if you spawn Telnet as a subprocess and later suspend it [ ^]Z ], it will look around for its parent process and reattach to it. You can then do something else in your top-level DCL and then do ATTACH <subproc- name> to return to your Telnet session, perhaps to find output from the remote system buffered for you all along. It seems to me that building such a mechanism into RTPAD itself would be pretty easy, if DEC could be made to see the elegance of escape characters. This would punt the need for a lot of grodey driver hacking, as well, since disconnection wouldn't be involved at all. _H* -------