Checksum: 11115 Path: utzoo!utgpu!woods From: woods@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods) Date: Wed, 13-Jul-88 00:11:05 EDT Message-ID: <1988Jul13.001105.29472@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Organization: G. A. W. Constulting Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Interactive Background Processes References: <8029@alice.UUCP> Reply-To: woods@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Greg Woods) 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 Work: UUCP: {allegra, mtune, ihnp4}!gauss!wilber > ARPA: wilber@research.att.com Unfortunately, a Unix without job control, layers, or such will not provide the system facilities required for emacs to do the same. Fortunately, one of these "features" usually exists in every version of Unix, though that doesn't mean emacs will work with it properly. Unfortuantely, only a true window manager for X or NeWS, or layers (not shell-layers) on a DMD terminal, or something similar, are easy enough to use. None of these are usefull on a dumb terminal at 1200 baud, though layers is nearly so, it's just the terminal isn't very cheap nor dumb. -- Greg Woods. UUCP: utgpu!woods, utgpu!{cpcc, ontmoh, ontmoh!cpcc, tmsoft!cpcc}!woods VOICE: (416) 242-7572 [h] LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario, Canada