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From: andrew@amdahl.UUCP (Andrew Sharpe)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: shell layers discussion
Message-ID: <2906@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 18:38:19 EST
Article-I.D.: amdahl.2906
Posted: Wed Mar 12 18:38:19 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Mar-86 07:29:37 EST
References: <67@cstvax.UUCP> <2864@amdahl.UUCP> <194@rexago1.UUCP>
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Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA
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Keywords: SYSV sxt shl
Summary: shl

In article <194@rexago1.UUCP>, rich@rexago1.UUCP (K. Richard Magill) writes:
> In article <2864@amdahl.UUCP> andrew@amdahl.UUCP (Andrew Sharpe) writes:
> >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.
> >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'.
> 
> So long as you have ksh, whose sxt job control crashes machines, 

I beg to differ, but I run shl with the ksh, and have no problems
whatsoever. If your machine crashes with shl and ksh, well, I would
take a look at your *particular* port of UNIX. It is not fair to
blame AT&T for bugs that porters added.
-- 
Andrew Sharpe          ...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs}!amdahl!andrew
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