Re: suspending non-compliant applications

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From: Jawaid Bazyar
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 09:04

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glyn@cs.UAlberta.CA (Reade Glyn Devin) writes:

>My understanding is once I set auxtype to DC00 for a 
>non-compliant application, GNO no longer buffers the
>keyboard and therefore cannot intercept the ^Z
>necessary to suspend the process and return to gsh.
>Is this correct?

>In other words, I can only exit these programs
>(including desktop ones), not suspend them?

  Correct.  GNO 1.1 will provide some features to allow you to
suspend desktop applications (strictly speaking, they're compliant,
but 'nifty-feature' support for them is slim right now.

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