In article <Pine.NEB.4.02.9811161000560.3009-100000@shaft.laffeycomputer.com> joe@laffeycomputer.com writes:
>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?
>

If you are using tcsh:

	set continue=pine

will do what you want.

christos