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Subject: Re: GNU BASH supporting POSIX job-control?
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Date: 7 Nov 90 22:55:30 GMT
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David Mosberger wrote:
>| $ Is there a BASH version supporting POSIX job-control?

Brandon Allbery replied:
>SCO UNIX, among others, provides kernel job control --- but it is POSIX job
>control, which is subtly (but incompatibly) different from BSD job control.


Not to worry; it's not *that* different.  I have a version of bash with
Posix job control; it has run on SCO, ISC, Ultrix 3.[01], AIX 3.1, SunOS 4.1,
and HP-UX 7.0 successfully.

It should be in the next release of bash, which will be 1.06.  When that
will be I cannot say.

Chet
-- 
Chet Ramey
Network Services Group			``I die, Horatio''
Case Western Reserve University
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