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From: carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: System V Release 4.0 Developers
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Date: 9 Oct 88 19:51:00 GMT
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/* Written  3:46 pm  Oct  7, 1988 by gwyn@smoke.ARPA in s.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.wizards */
/* ---------- "Re: System V Release 4.0 Developers" ---------- */
In article <2691@ihwpt.ATT.COM> dem@ihwpt.ATT.COM (David E. Martin) writes:
>My big question for System V 4.0 is: Does it have BSD style job control?

Certainly it would for the "BSD new tty" line discipline and csh.
If its /bin/sh doesn't support job control you could use the BRL version.
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I'm sorry, I missed something here. My understanding is that it is the OS
that supports job control (or not), not the shell. While sh doesn't deal
with stopped/background jobs, ksh does, and I thought that ksh would be
standard in SysVR4. Is the BRL shell public domain, or obtainable for a
nominal fee? Or do you have to have sh source first?

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