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- From: fish@daacdev1.stx.com
- Subject: Re: How do I suspend nn?
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:52:13 GMT
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- aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis) writes:
-
- >I really, truly, honestly want to suspend my nn process, in order to use
- >some other process that I have suspended, or whatever, and return to nn.
- >However, nn *always* starts a subshell, instead. I'm using Korn shell,
- >if that's relevant. (Same behavior with C shell, though.)
-
- >Please don't tell me to RTFNNM -- I already have. It *claims* that C-z
- >will suspend the shell if possible, else start a subshell. It never does,
- >though. :(
-
- i tried it and it works for me (using ksh) can you suspend other processes
- with ^Z ? i suspect that maybe your stty susp is not set to ^Z (check with
- stty -a and see what susp is set to)
-
- fish
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