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- From: ncherry@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (neil j.cherry)
- Subject: Re: Unix system V question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.143402.12323@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: AT&T
- References: <1992Nov10.042638.13432@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:34:02 GMT
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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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- Bill it sounds like you've "shelled out" of emacs, AT&T unix at V3.x doesn't
- have true job control. You could use something like shl but I digress. Try
- exit, it should return you to emacs (if you've shelled out and not exited).
- I hope this helps, if not then ..... ignore this post!
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- NJC
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