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From: cjc@ulysses.att.com (Chris Calabrese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Korn Shell on SVR4 (was: Is Unix V.4 a Kornshell system?)
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Date: 25 Sep 90 14:01:17 GMT
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In article <1990Sep20.171821.9033@cbnewsc.att.com> pgn@cbnewsc.att.com (Novorolsky) writes:
>SVR4 supplies several shells, and yes, Korn shell is one of them.
>As an additional item, the SVR4 ksh has some new features,
>my favorite is job control. You can now move processes from foreground
>to background and back. (Nothing new to csh users..., BTW, csh
>is also supplied with SVR4.)

This is not a shell issue, but an OS issue.  Ksh has had job control
for some years when run on OS' which support it.  This includes BSD,
SunOS, some versions of System V hacked up by Dave Korn, and others.

It is standard System V which did not support job control, whether you
were using csh or ksh.
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