ok, here's my problem. i logged into my server via putty, ran a command, which started doing it's thing in the terminal. putty then timed out, but my process is still running. how do i bring the process back to the terminal? it is not listed a job so i cannot bring it to the foreground. basically, i started bittorrent-curses and the download started, my putty terminal timed out and the download is still going but i want to bring the process back up to the terminal. any ideas? can this be done without having screened it or running it in the background initially?

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Screen would be the answer in future - I can't help with the current problem.
Let it finish, or kill it and then restart it via screen ???.

yes, i know i can screen it. it just happens i ran the command without screening...so i'm kinda stuck there. just wondering if it was possible without screen or &.