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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Bourne shell with job control?
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Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 06:59:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  7 06:59:45 1984
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UNIX-TM System V Rel. 2 does not have JOB control in the Bourne
shell.  It doesn't do jobs the same as berkeley.  What they have
is a program that uses pseudo ttys to switch between multiple
shells on the terminal.  What you get are a bunch of different
shells who are switched by the shl command not the ability to track
multiple processes with the same shell.  The effort is not in the shell itself
but in the shell layers utility.

This has it's own merits.  It gives you the functionality of the layers
in the 5620, but of course without the windows or the graphics.

-Ron