sys5, job control, etc.
Brandon Allbery
allbery at ncoast.UUCP
Tue Mar 4 09:38:22 AEST 1986
Expires:
Quoted from <67 at cstvax.UUCP> ["Re: UNIX Futures"], by scott at cstvax.UUCP (Scott Larnach)...
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| The one and only real thing which bugs me about system V is the
| total lack of job control. e.g. in the mail program and having to check
| something out .. fancy being faced with either writing your mail
| out (and later having to read it in again), or having to fork up
| another shell. With a big load up either of these options can be
| painful. The functionality of ^Z and fg is tremendous!
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For me, at least, sxt's would be enough. So I'm seeing about hacking a
generic sxt driver into our sys3 (soon to be sys5?). The only problem so
far is that I can't add a control character to Unix (I can add device drivers,
I can't modify existing ones) so I have to give up the quit character. (If
I could only patch in c_cc[6]...) This thing will be supersimplistic but will
do what I want.
--Brandon
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