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From: steve@nuchat.sccsi.com (Steve Nuchia)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Trying to stop "pg", "more" or "less" jobs with "^Z" under ISC 2.2
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.123408.17325@nuchat.sccsi.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 12:34:08 GMT
References: <1991Jun16.211419.13322@cs.rochester.edu> <shj.677155825@dkuugin>
Organization: South Coast Computing Services, Inc.  Houston
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In article <shj.677155825@dkuugin> shj@login.dkuug.dk (Stig Jacobsen) writes:
>the application - I was under the impression that applications
>did not _need_ to do anything in particular to support job
>control?

True if the application does not do anything destructive to the
state of its parent.  Like change the ioctl state of the
controlling terminal.
-- 
Steve Nuchia	      South Coast Computing Services      (713) 964-2462
	"Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune
	 not to keep very well and to be easily misled."
	    --- Immanuel Kant,  Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals