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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: net.eunice
Subject: Re: Spawning an interactive DCL from Eunice
Message-ID: <1454@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 14:02:59 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1454
Posted: Fri Nov  9 14:02:59 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Nov-84 10:24:36 EST
References: <382@noao.UUCP> <590@sjuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

In article <590@sjuvax.UUCP> jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro) writes:
>One of the frequently undocumented features of Eunice is the fact that if 
>FROM THE CSHELL one types "suspend" eunice will spawn a DCL job.  The
>limitation is that no LOGIN.COM file is processed by this command.

Another limitation is that ^Y won't work.  Woe betide if you say "dir/full"
in a directory with 1000 versions.  There's no way to stop it short of
killing the process.

Larry Wall
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