Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!apple!rutgers!ukma!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: using System V 'cu' Message-ID: <13176@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 25 Nov 88 21:13:50 GMT References: <6808@venera.isi.edu> <1244@vsedev.VSE.COM> <4241@encore.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 31 As quoted from <4241@encore.UUCP> by bzs@encore.com (Barry Shein): +--------------- | In reply James Logan suggests | >In article <6808@venera.isi.edu> cracraft@venera.isi.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes: | >>How do you slow down cu's file transfer capability (e.g. the tilde-put | >>command) ?? | > | >There are two thing I can think of to try. The first idea is to | >give the yourself a nice value of 39. Just type | > | > nice -39 $SHELL | | (this increases priority, beyond the max which is silly and may | actually do nothing, you also have to be super-user, but that's what | you meant?) +--------------- You DID see the subject line, didn't you? It very clearly says "System V". Csh -- BSD, *not* System V -- uses "+nn" to lower priority and "-nn" to raise it. Sh and ksh -- which are what are USUALLY found on System V systems -- use "-nn" to lower priority and "--nn" (yes, that's TWO hyphens) to raise it. Sigh. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, comp.sources.misc moderator and one admin of ncoast PA UN*X uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu allberyb@skybridge.sdi.cwru.edu allbery@uunet.uu.net comp.sources.misc is moving off ncoast -- please do NOT send submissions direct Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@.