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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why no job control in 386/ix?
Keywords: job control,system V
Message-ID: <11655@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 19 Nov 89 10:43:04 GMT
References: <3880@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3880@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> izen@cwru.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen) writes:
>The C-shell which was included with 386/ix (a system V UNIX for 386 boxes)
>does not support job control.  Is this because
>	1) The kernel is missing something required to support it,

That's it.
The horrible kludges needed for job control are rumored to be present
in SVR4.0.