NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/sys/3b1/3779

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From: [e-mail] (Tom Tkacik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Unix system V question
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Date: 10 Nov 92 12:51:34 GMT
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In article [e-mail], [e-mail] (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.

The 3b1 has no job control.  You cannot suspend a job.  That's why jobs and fg
do not seem to work.  They are not available.

You cannot suspend emacs.  I suspect that what emacs is doing is actually starting
up a subshell, (it just looks like it has been suspended).  To get back to emacs,
you need to finish your compile, and then kill the subshell (using ^D).  Emacs
will come back.

As to the ^C not working, it appears that you need to use stty.  It lets you
set up various terminal settings.  I think what you need is  'stty intr ^C'.
You can also use it to change the backspace key from Delete to ^H (or anything
else that you prefer),  using 'stty erase ^H'.

Welcome to the fun world of System V.  You've obviously been using BSD too long. :-)

Tom Tkacik
GM Research Labs
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