Spawning an interactive DCL from Eunice

Larry Wall lwall at sdcrdcf.UUCP
Sat Nov 10 05:02:59 AEST 1984


In article <590 at sjuvax.UUCP> jss at sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro) writes:
>One of the frequently undocumented features of Eunice is the fact that if 
>FROM THE CSHELL one types "suspend" eunice will spawn a DCL job.  The
>limitation is that no LOGIN.COM file is processed by this command.

Another limitation is that ^Y won't work.  Woe betide if you say "dir/full"
in a directory with 1000 versions.  There's no way to stop it short of
killing the process.

Larry Wall
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