[fa.info-vax] RTPAD, etc

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*
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