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- From: tkacik@hobbes.hobbes.cs.gmr.com (Tom Tkacik)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
- Subject: Re: Unix system V question
- Message-ID: <93176@rphroy.ph.gmr.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 13:05:52 GMT
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- In article 8yu@chinet.chi.il.us, les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell writes:
- > In article <93114@rphroy.ph.gmr.com> tkacik@hobbes.hobbes.cs.gmr.com 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.
- >
- > My 3b1 has been dead for a while, but as I recall the <suspd> key will
- > take you back to the window manager where you can open another full
- > screen unix session to do whatever you want - then later you can go
- > back to your previous session (through the window manger again).
- > It's not quite the same concept as job control but it serves the
- > purpose nicely.
-
- Good point. You can also put into the inittab file more than one login window.
- I currently have three login windows. The shift-<suspd> key takes you from one
- window to the next. It works rather nicely. (I do not use the window manager
- anymore.)
-
- Another solution is to get windy. It will let you create new shell window to
- your hearts content, (up to the limit of the machine). Again you can use
- shift-<suspd> to bounce from one shell window to the next.
-
- The only problem with this is that you still cannot suspend jobs. You can run
- several programs, each in its own window, allowing you to do several things at
- once. But occasionally I find that I would really like to suspend that compile
- which is using up all of the CPU so that some other little task will run faster.
- I would like to stop one job temporarily, but can't.
-
- I may not be able to have everything, but that's never kept me from wanting it.
-
- Tom Tkacik
- GM Research Labs
- tkacik@hobbes.cs.gmr.com
- tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org
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