Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!tub!coma!csch
From: csch@coma.UUCP (Clemens Schrimpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Requesting info on Xenix
Message-ID: <330@coma.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 87 12:13:48 GMT
References: <461@morgoth.UUCP> <2604@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: csch@tmpmbx.UUCP (Clemens Schrimpe)
Organization: netmbx GbR, Berlin - West-Germany
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In article <2604@killer.UUCP> wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul) writes:
>Well, the BSD v. ATT controversy rears its head again. Stopping and starting
>jobs is a feature of Berkeley UNIX and not supported on most AT&T versions
>(I heard that SV.3 ksh supports it, but nothing prior to that).
Right! - but SCO Xenix (we're running 2.2.1) supports so called
"shell-layers", which is some mixture of a special line-discipline and
pseudo-ttys. (I've seen them on other SYS V installations also, so I think
it's not a special SCO-feature)
They allow you to handle up to eight processes, each of which can be 
stopped, continued, killed, "put in background" and so far.
I'd like BSD-like stop-and-go features more than this, but it's more
than NOTHING :-)

happy new yearishness                ]:-}

	Clemens

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