Job Control, Shl

[Ian Donaldson]

> ... replaced by the next command thus preventing naive
> users from backing up a lot of stopped jobs, no one mentioned this
> problem on BSD, anyone else have students with 15 stopped lisps
> because it doesn't stop when they hit ^C but ^Z works "just fine"?!
  ...
> 	-Barry Shein, Boston University

Its funny you should mention that - lots of our students seem to do exactly the
same thing - hit ^Z instead of ^C as it "works".  They then wonder why
the system starts slowing down, or it always says "There are stopped jobs" when
they log out.

I think that the word "Stopped" is rather inappropriate.  "Stop" to me means
halted or dead.  I think that the word "Suspended" should replace the word
"Stopped" (in csh and all related literature), as it gives a notion that 
there is still something there that can be restarted.

Ian Donaldson

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