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- From: hlu@boromir.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: Re: Job control flakey?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.061056.3538@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Sender: hlu@boromir (H.J. Lu)
- Organization: Washington State University
- References: <1992Aug20.223208.29133@sol.UVic.CA>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 06:10:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.223208.29133@sol.UVic.CA>, pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
- |> Been meaning to post this for some time, but since I have upgraded to .97 and
- |> am still seeing the problem...
- |>
- |> It seems that sometimes the console ignores ^C and ^Z. I have seen this
- |> during "make" and during "tail". But at other times it works just fine.
- |> For example, doing a kernel "make", sometimes I can ^C it and sometimes
- |> I can't. Does anybody have any idea whether this can be due to my own
- |> foolishness, or is it possibly a (shudder) bug?
- |>
- |> PS: For Motif emulation under SLS, log in as "user1", and type startx.
- |>
- |> pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca
- |>
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- Same is here. But since I switched to zsh and gnu make I compiled myself, that
- problem is gone. I suspect the shell you are using is too old.
-
- H.J.
-