You could 'kill -CONT pid', but the shell would not understand
	what was going on and the pine process would end up being
	suspended again due to tty input.

	Some better options:
		'Kill -HUP' the previous pine to make to cleanup and exit.
		Just print 'another pine is running on ttyXX' and exit.

		David/absolute

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On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Joe Laffey wrote:

> I use pine for e-mail and if you start a second instance of pine it is
> VERY slow to open as it tries to get the mailbox lock and inevitably
> fails. Thus, I was write a little perl script to see if pine was already
> running. I'd really like this script to bring pine to the foreground if it
> is already running. However, I don't know how to bring a job to the
> foreground. If I use the exec or system commands this seems to invoke
> _another_ shell which has no concept of the jobs in the original shell. Is
> there a way to bring a job to the foreground by pid?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> Joe Laffey
> LAFFEY Computer Imaging
> St. Louis, MO
> http://www.laffeycomputer.com
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