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[DISLOCATE(1)]                General Commands Manual               [DISLOCATE(1)]



**NAME**
       Dislocate - disconnect and reconnect processes

**SYNOPSIS**
       **dislocate** [ _program_ _args..._  ]

**INTRODUCTION**
       **Dislocate**  allows  processes  to be disconnected and reconnected to the
       terminal.  Possible uses:

              **o**   You can disconnect a process from a terminal at work and re-
                  connect from home, to continue working.

              **o**   After  having your line be dropped due to noise, you can get
                  back to your process  without  having  to  restart  it  from
                  scratch.

              **o**   If  you  have a problem that you would like to show someone,
                  you can set up the scenario at your  own  terminal,  discon-
                  nect, walk down the hall, and reconnect on another terminal.

              **o**   If  you are in the middle of a great game (or whatever) that
                  does not allow you to save, and someone else kicks  you  off
                  the terminal, you can disconnect, and reconnect later.

**USAGE**
       When run with no arguments, **Dislocate** tells you about your disconnected
       processes and lets you reconnect to one.  Otherwise, **Dislocate** runs the
       named program along with any arguments.

       By default, ^] is an escape that lets you talk to **Dislocate** itself.  At
       that point, you can disconnect (by pressing ^D)  or  suspend  **Dislocate**
       (by pressing ^Z).

       Any  Tcl or Expect command is also acceptable at this point.  For exam-
       ple, to insert the contents of a the file /etc/motd as if you had typed
       it, say:

            send -i $out [exec cat /etc/motd]


       To send the numbers 1 to 100 in response to the prompt "next #", say:

            for {set i 0} {$i<100} {incr i} {
                expect -i $in "next #"
                send -i $out "$i\r"
            }

       Scripts  can  also be prepared and sourced in so that you don't have to
       type them on the spot.

       **Dislocate** is actually just a simple **Expect** script.  Feel free  to  make
       it do what you want it to do or just use **Expect** directly, without going
       through **Dislocate**.  **Dislocate**  understands  a  few  special  arguments.
       These  should appear before any program name.  Each should be separated
       by whitespace.  If the  arguments  themselves  takes  arguments,  these
       should also be separated by whitespace.

       The  **-escape** flag sets the escape to whatever follows.  The default es-
       cape is ^].

**CAVEATS**
       This program was written by the author as an exercise to show that com-
       municating  with  disconnected  processes is easy.  There are many fea-
       tures that could be added, but that is not the intent of this program.


**SEE** **ALSO**
       [**Tcl**(3)], [**libexpect**(3)]
       _"Exploring_ _Expect:_ _A_ _Tcl-Based_ _Toolkit_ _for_ _Automating_ _Interactive_  _Pro-_
       _grams"_ by Don Libes, O'Reilly and Associates, January 1995.

**AUTHOR**
       Don Libes, National Institute of Standards and Technology



                                7 October 1993                    [DISLOCATE(1)]