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control from your current process (which then hibernates) to the
specified process.  The ATTACH and SPAWN commands cannot be used
if your terminal has an associated mailbox.   ATTACH [process-
name]    Specifies the name of a parent process or spawned
subprocess to which control passes. The process must already
exist, be part of your current job, and share the same input
stream as your current process. However, the process cannot be
your current process or a subprocess created with the /NOWAIT
qualifier.  Process names can contain from 1 to 15 alphanumeric
characters. If a connection to the specified process cannot be
made, an error message is displayed.  The process-name parameter
is incompatible with the /IDENTIFICATION qualifier.   The ATTACH
command allows you to connect your input stream to another
process. You can use the ATTACH command to change control from
one subprocess to another sub