BSD job control - (nf)

[grunwald at uiuccsb.UUCP]

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uiuccsb!grunwald    Mar 31 12:32:00 1984

Horse hocky -- multi-edits is a great reason for job control.

Consider using VI -- you may want to look at /usr/include/something.h while
editing. Writing and escaping costs a lot, and you lose your place in your
file.
   Hitting ^Z and then doing a more on the include file is a lot faster
FOR ME, the user.

Also, once you start having a network and you're logged into 3 or 4 machines
at once, and you need to move between them quickly, you'll soon begin to
appreciate job control. Having to logout of a rlogin session each time you
want to hop to another machine for a quick peek at something would cost so
much time and CPU power that you would never do it.

dirk "I live my BSD" grunwald
University of Illinois
ihnp4!uiucdcs!grunwald
grunwald.uiuc at CSNET