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From: space@sns.UUCP (Lars Soltau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ST PROGRAMMING
Summary: General approval, correction in small item
Message-ID: <172@sns.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 88 21:39:42 GMT
References: <3009@sugar.uu.net> <36@raider.MFEE.TN.US> <3028@sugar.uu.net> <2231@bucsb.UUCP> <3036@sugar.uu.net>
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In article <3036@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
[lotsa text deleted]
>As shipped, UNIX ignores ^C... DEL is the default interrupt character.

Well, only if you regard AT&T Unix as "*the* Unix". BSD has ^C as its default
interrupt character.

>Since the book, an additional resource... the display... has become a fairly
>common subsystem. Without multitasking, though, windowing is a fairly useless
>tool.

I'd even go so far as to say that multitasking without windows doesn't make me
very happy any more, either. Unless it has at least the BSD job control. You
know, ^Z and so on.
Boy, am I lucky that I have both. :-)
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