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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: how can .cshrc know if session is a login?
Message-ID: <31751@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 25 May 89 01:02:50 GMT
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In article <264@ibd.BRL.MIL> heilpern@brl.arpa (Mark A. Heilpern (IBD) <heilpern>) writes:
|In article <31552@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:
|-->    alias fg echo No current job.
|-->  alias bg echo "Open the pod bay doors HAL.  I can't do that, Dave"
|
|**>Just aliasing "%" and "fg" to "exit" has the annoying habit of logging
|  >you out.
|
|Yes, Jim, but by alias-ing fg and bg to 'echo' statements, as in the
|arrowed lines, you are removing the ability to get back to any suspended
|jobs stopped with the use of control-Z.
|(Try it, it works :)

Only on BSD-style UNIXs, which I prefer but don't happen to have
sitting on my desk at work.  Instead of trying to remember to get out
of job-control mode when using SysV braindamage, I lie to myself.

Which reminds me, does anyone know of a BSD-compatible system which
runs on the 80386 (excepting SunOS for obvious reasons)?  I'd kill for
one.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu