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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh 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 Message-ID: <JKH.93Oct18000211@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <CF29H8.AMI@westminster.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 00:02:11 GMT Lines: 17 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 -- (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.