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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: BSD job control
In-Reply-To: lylec@westminster.ac.uk's message of Sun, 17 Oct 1993 21: 38:09 GMT
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In article <CF29H8.AMI@westminster.ac.uk> lylec@westminster.ac.uk (Jiri Kantor) writes:

   "Is job control necessary or desirable? .......
   Some people claim that a well-designed windowing system removes any need
   for job control. .........

Sigh..  It does not.  You still need to be able to do multiple things
in the same context, that is environment variables with the same values,
special tty settings, the works..  No window system that I know of gives
you multiple windows to the exact same shell.

				Jordan
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(Jordan K. Hubbard)  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie

I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee.  I am an independent
contractor.