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From: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Unix
Summary: ^Z would be nice in AmigaDOS shell too
Keywords: job control?
Message-ID: <305@antares.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 21:28:01 GMT
References: <312@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <5495@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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In article <5495@cbmvax.UUCP> ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) writes:

>Of course, AmigaDos doesn't have job control, either, and people
>get along fine without it there.  (Job control is just a crutch
>for OS's that don't do windows. :-)
>

Even with the ability to open a 2nd shell, there are times when I ^C a job
in order to restart in the background. It would sure be nice to have just
enough stuff to let me use some special char to kick a running job into the
background from the CLI (shell). I suppose this is difficult...

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