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From: andrew@amdahl.UUCP (Andrew Sharpe)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX Futures
Message-ID: <2864@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 15:28:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 15:28:39 1986
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References: <67@cstvax.UUCP>
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Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA
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Summary: whats wrong with using shl?

In article <67@cstvax.UUCP>, scott@cstvax.UUCP (Scott Larnach) writes:
> 
> The one and only real thing which bugs me about system V is the
> total lack of job control.
> 
> Come on, AT&T, give me job control and I'll be a believer.

Uhh, excuse me, but what about shell layers ( shl ) ? It does not
give you job control, per se, but it does allow you to break out
of a foreground process, to 'do something else'.
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Andrew Sharpe          ...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs}!amdahl!andrew
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