Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!unisoft!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: job control (was: How to mess up your tty) Message-ID: <1991Jun30.203422.11422@mtxinu.COM> Date: 30 Jun 91 20:34:22 GMT References: <2997.Jun2704.59.0991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1991Jun29.084246.29248@ITcorp.com> <16585@smoke.brl.mil> Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.com (Ed Gould) Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley Lines: 16 >Anyone who has seen the source to shl probably cringes to hear it >recommended. At the first Washington Conference (also the last event to be sponsored jointly by USENIX and [then] /usr/group), I remember chatting with someone from AT&T, whom I didn't know, and whose name I have long since forgotton. He admitted that shl was his idea. However, he followed that statement by remarking, quite seriously, that he had been joking at the time. He also said that he was more careful about his jokes after that... -- Ed Gould No longer formally affiliated with, ed@mtxinu.COM and certainly not speaking for, mt Xinu. "I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady. I'll fight them as an engineer."