[Info-vax] CTRL/D Versus CTRL/Z

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In article <57475af1-8bb9-491e-ac1d-bfce49d9e787 at googlegroups.com>, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> writes:
>On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 3:05:25 PM UTC-4, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2016-06-30 20:03, John Reagan wrote:
>> > On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 10:16:42 AM UTC-4, Johnny Billquist wrote=
>:
>> >> On 2016-06-30 15:36, John E. Malmberg wrote:
>> >>> On 6/30/2016 7:19 AM, John Reagan wrote:
>> >>>> On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 3:38:17 AM UTC-4, lawren... at gmail.com
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>> Did VMS ever pick up the idea of foreground/background process
>> >>>>> groups?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> There is the ATTACH command that might solve some similar problems
>> >>>> but isn't quite the same since it is a DCL command.
>> >>
>> >> I seem to remember some some select other programs also have an
>> >> ATTACH/DETACH command?
>> >>
>> >
>> > I found it in the debugger and DTM.  For the debugger, that is for debu=
>gging multi-process applications.  DTM?  Not sure why.
>> >
>> > The problem that ATTACH seemed to solve was trying to manage multiple p=
>rocesses from a VT100 (without using something like TOPS-10 OPSER or TOPS-2=
>0 PTYCON).  Now a days, you have a larger screen where you can have multipl=
>e terminal emulators so ATTACH has less value (they do share the JOB table =
>so that is a benefit over separate terminal screens).
>> >
>> > [One of my former coworkers actually wrote a PTYCON-32 for VAX/VMS.  It=
> might be on some older Freeware CDs but I'm not sure.]
>>=20
>> Maybe we are talking about different ATTACH? There is definitely ATTACH=
>=20
>> in MAIL, for example, to move between processes.
>>=20
>> 	Johnny
>
>Forgot to check MAIL.
>
>I personally never used ATTACH in any of the tools.

What?  You don't SPAWN off procedures from within MAIL to delete all the SPAM
and hate mail you get? ;)

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