Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!killer!vector!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Interactive Background Processes Summary: Got this in the mail and wanted to share it with you. Message-ID: <3765@rpp386.UUCP> Date: 9 Jul 88 14:46:15 GMT References: <16365@brl-adm.ARPA><237@pigs.UUCP> Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers Lines: 24 In an earlier posting I was discussion background processes in 5.0 and mentioned how not all implementations were capable of running multiple background jobs. Someone from SCO sent me a letter and here is the text of it: +---- |> unfortunately, not all of the modern unix implementations have sxt's and |> the shell layer manager. for example, the plexus doesn't have any of |> those things. the wyse, running xenix, does, but only has one control |> sxt so only one instance of shl can be running. |> |>- john. |>-- | | If you want to run more than one instance of shell layers, | run configure(C) and raise NSXT from its default of 1. | No inherent limitation here. | --amy +---- -- John F. Haugh II +--------- Cute Chocolate Quote --------- HASA, "S" Division | "USENET should not be confused with UUCP: killer!rpp386!jfh | something that matters, like CHOCOLATE" DOMAIN: jfh@rpp386.uucp | -- with my apologizes