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From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
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Subject: Re: AIX questions?
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Date: 5 Jun 89 02:27:38 GMT
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>Even so, I'd give a lot for job control on the 386, I'm missing my old
>386i.

If your kernel supports shell layers, ksh can give you a very
reasonable emulation of Berkeley job control.  shl is ATT's official
answer to job control, and it's a disaster.  But the underlying kernel
facilities used by shl can be used for something more interesting.  I
use it on Microport SV/AT.  Unfortunately, you need source to ksh to
build it with job control support enabled (and install some patches I
developed to make it work reliably - Korn did most of the work, but
gave up final debugging when he decided to insert BSD job control
support in System V instead).  I've never understood why none of the
micro System V vendors would ship ksh with job control.  I guess if
they understood why people wanted such things, they'd be doing BSD
instead of System V in the first place...