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From: pdl@root44.UUCP (Dave Lukes)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: C Shell
Message-ID: <4096@root44.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Jul-83 07:05:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: root44.4096
Posted: Mon Jul 18 07:05:49 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 19-Jul-83 09:01:18 EDT
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Yawn, yawn: Job control is another redundant feature....

**** FLAME ON ****:

Job control is a way of handling multiple processes in multiple `contexts'
(i.e. foreground, background, etc.). What's wrong with a multi-window
terminal for doing exactly the same thing (i.e. leaving things running
in one window, the switching to another one to do something else etc. etc. etc.)
Again, job control is a BAD way to do the job (just like aliases and history...).
Also, my other objection to job control is that it has massive and painful
hooks into the kernel, all to implement a specific end user feature.
This seems wrong to me. (What happened to generality, and keeping the kernel
small ?)

**** FLAME OFF ****.

			Dave Lukes, Fid. Def.
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