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You can disconnect a process from a terminal at work and reconnect from home, to continue working.

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

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

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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.

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 example, 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 escape is ^].