Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!elroy!cit-vax!oberon!sdcrdcf!csun!csuna!aeusemrs From: aeusemrs@csuna.UUCP (Mike Stump) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Interactive Background Processes Message-ID: <1280@csuna.UUCP> Date: 14 Jul 88 05:00:52 GMT References: <8029@alice.UUCP> <1988Jul13.001105.29472@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Reply-To: aeusemrs@csuna.csun.edu (Mike Stump) Organization: California State University, Northridge Lines: 27 In article <1988Jul13.001105.29472@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> woods@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes: -In article <8029@alice.UUCP> wilber@alice.UUCP writes: --As a non-wizard (posting under false pretenses, I guess) it --seems to me that if you have a version of Unix without job --control or layers or the like the "poor man's solution" to --this problem is to fire up Emacs, make as many shell --buffers as you need, and run whatever you want in each --one. Of course the background process can't keep running --after you log out. --Bob Wilber -Unfortunately, a Unix without job control, layers, or such -will not provide the system facilities [sic] required for -emacs to do the same. - Greg Woods. One rule of of thumb, never rip someones head off, unless you are sure you are right. (Because someone like myself, in defense of a person like Bob, might rip your head off.) Bob is perfectly correct in this case, and does not need correcting. If I understand you correctly, you are just plain wrong, if I do not, I would like a clarification on the statement you made. -- Mike Stump, Cal State Univ, Northridge Comp Sci Department uucp: {sdcrdcf, ihnp4, hplabs, ttidca, psivax, csustan}!csun!csuna!aeusemrs