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reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) writes:
> In article <1990@nyx.UUCP>, cla@nyx.UUCP (Chuck Anderson) writes...
> > - BTW, "push-shell" is the way to run a DOS shell. I've bound it to F10. - 
> 
> Anyone know  the  difference between this and "pause-jove".  They seem to do
> the same thing to me.

They do the same thing under MS-DOS.  If you were running JOVE under a
version of Unix with job control, though, they would do different
things.  Push-shell would just spawn another copy of your shell, and
you would end up with your login shell, JOVE, and a new shell.
Pause-jove would use job control commands to pause the JOVE process
and return you to your login shell.  The advantages of pause-jove
include being able to restart JOVE in the background with "bg" and
have it run while you're in the shell, and having non-exported
variables, aliases, etc. available in the shell.  I'm sure there are
other advantages, but as I only use a machine with job control
occassionally (my usual Unix machines are 386's and 486's running SCO
Xenix and Unix), I don't know a whole lot about it.

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