Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrlnk!uunet!mcvax!unido!sns!space 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> Reply-To: space@sns.UUCP (Lars Soltau) Organization: Stuttgart Net System, FRG Lines: 20 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. :-) -- Lars Soltau UUCP: ...uunet!unido!sns!space BIX: -- no bucks -- Here's looking at you, kid! -- the Medusa