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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: net.eunice
Subject: Re: Spawning an interactive DCL from Eunice
Message-ID: <1503@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 13:31:48 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1503
Posted: Wed Nov 28 13:31:48 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 08:49:06 EST
References: <382@noao.UUCP> <590@sjuvax.UUCP> <1454@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <1238@t4test.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

In article <1238@t4test.UUCP> chip@t4test.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
> ...Of course, if you don't enable ^Y you
>can always ^O, drum your fingertips merrily on the tabletop for 30 seconds
>or so, and then continue on when you get your prompt back.  As ugly as the
>^O solution is, it's probably easier (and quicker) than logging on somewhere
>else, locating your PID, and stopping it.

Usually, but once I started a purge that gave me 700 messages, about 1 a
second, that it couldn't do something or other.  It wasn't terminal bound
so ^O didn't help much.

I also got stuck listing a 15 megabyte accounting file to the terminal.
Apparently the accounting utility traps ^C, and resets ^O on every record.

Thanks for the ^Y info, though.  That will help.

Larry Wall
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