SHL LAYERS

Monte Pickard monte at oblio.UUCP
Tue Jan 20 17:18:30 AEST 1987


In article <5528 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <1324 at cadovax.UUCP> mitchell at cadovax.UUCP (Mitchell Lerner) writes:
> >Anybody used shl layers?  How is it as a user interface?  Can I do most
> >of the things that I can do under Berkeley's job control with shl layers?
> 
> "shl" can do most of the things you probably use 4BSD job control for,
> ...

Good try Doug, but shl (shell layers) is a very poor excuse for job
control under 4.2.  Although I am basically a AT&T based UNIX devotee,
this statement violates the 'fairness' rule.  ( Unfortunately, most pro-4.x
devotees violate the same rule in their arguments.)

Monte Pickard - Counterpoint Computers



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