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- From: adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
- Subject: Re: Unix system V question
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 11:18:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.111849.12906@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Nov10.042638.13432@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov10.042638.13432@news.acns.nwu.edu> richter@birkhoff.math.nwu.edu (Bill Richter) writes:
- "I love my 3b1, except for the job control. I'm used to killing a job
- "with C-c; this doesn't seem to ever work. Even worse, the commands
- "jobs and fg don't exist. Suppose you stop a job, for instance by
- "suspending emacs in order to compile the file. How can you ever get
- "back to it? The command ps gives the process id, which is fine if I
- "want to kill the job, but I don't know how to resume it and get back
- "to emacs.
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- there _is_ no job control; that is a berkeleyism. this is also why bg
- and fg don't work. jobs will work if you have the ksh, though (it's a
- shell builtin).
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- Andrew Hay | I am not an expert, |
- a_d_hay@att.com | but I play one on the Internet! |
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