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From: grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: BSD job control - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 31-Mar-84 22:41:18 EST
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uiuccsb!grunwald    Mar 31 12:32:00 1984

Horse hocky -- multi-edits is a great reason for job control.

Consider using VI -- you may want to look at /usr/include/something.h while
editing. Writing and escaping costs a lot, and you lose your place in your
file.
   Hitting ^Z and then doing a more on the include file is a lot faster
FOR ME, the user.

Also, once you start having a network and you're logged into 3 or 4 machines
at once, and you need to move between them quickly, you'll soon begin to
appreciate job control. Having to logout of a rlogin session each time you
want to hop to another machine for a quick peek at something would cost so
much time and CPU power that you would never do it.

dirk "I live my BSD" grunwald
University of Illinois
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