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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Detach command.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.040216.13274@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 04:02:16 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan08.075225.9277@kub.nl> hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers) writes:
- >Eh? I always thought that being able to push a running UNIX process in the background
- >with Ctrl-Z and call it back later with FG, together with the BG and JOBS commands,
- >were UNIX *shell* commands, and thus implemented by the shell, not by the UNIX
- >kernel?!? If I'm wrong, please tell me.
- >
- >In this case, just get an OS/2 port of a csh of some kind that has job control built-in.
-
- :-)
- OK. Which ones do I choose from? preferably ksh, and preferably under $100.
-
- Thank you.
- Meir
-
- >I know that OS/2 has more types of sessions than UNIX, but without job control in the
- >shell, it wouldn't work anyway. If you just run OS/2 text mode aps, I can imagine the
- >shell arbitrating console access easily. And running other (PM) jobs from a shell
- >does not need BG/FG switching -- being an PM app.
- >
- >
- >Jeroen
- >
- >--
- >Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers, research engineer at | Stop connecting computers;
- >Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands | start connecting people!
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