Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!alice!wilber From: wilber@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Interactive Background Processes Message-ID: <8029@alice.UUCP> Date: 7 Jul 88 06:14:08 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 7 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