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- From: kay@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (k)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
- Subject: Re: Unix system V question
- Message-ID: <1dou0nINNcla@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 18:11:35 GMT
- References: <93114@rphroy.ph.gmr.com>
- Organization: Project Quantum Gweep
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- In article <93114@rphroy.ph.gmr.com> tkacik@hobbes.hobbes.cs.gmr.com writes:
- >In article 13432@news.acns.nwu.edu, richter@birkhoff.math.nwu.edu (Bill Richter writes:
- >
- >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.
- >
-
- Which is *intensely* annoying.
-
- >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.
-
- Yep, I can back this up...I've done it a lot.
-
- >
- >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'.
-
- Hey, thanks. Didn't know this bit.
-
- >
- >Welcome to the fun world of System V. You've obviously been using BSD too long. :-)
- >
-
- So, has anyone ported BSD to the 3b1 yet? Bout time we got some *real* Unix on
- these stunningly neat machines... :-)
-
- (as I duck the flames from all the people who say AT&T Unix is Real Unix, and
- technically, they're right...)
-
- k
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