UNIX Futures

[Andrew Sharpe]

In article <67 at cstvax.UUCP>, scott at cstvax.UUCP (Scott Larnach) writes:
> 
> The one and only real thing which bugs me about system V is the
> total lack of job control.
> 
> Come on, AT&T, give me job control and I'll be a believer.

Uhh, excuse me, but what about shell layers ( shl ) ? It does not
give you job control, per se, but it does allow you to break out
of a foreground process, to 'do something else'.
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Andrew Sharpe          ...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs}!amdahl!andrew
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