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Article #1239Re: Background writes in csh
From: Paul Lindner
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 22:59
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 22:59
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gorpong@ping.uucp (Gordon C. Galligher) writes: >> alias ls 'ls -FC \!* |more' >> >>This works fine, however sometimes it stops both tasks and puts them in >>the background, (this is on various Suns using csh and tcsh). Typing >>fg restarts the listing. This is really irritating, typing fg and all. >More(1) is the problem here. I have not quite figured it out, but I had a >similar problem when my users would type: history | more and it would do >[.........] More(1) isn't the problem here, I tried using less for a while but I still got the infamous: Stopped (tty output) [1] 21298 21299 So, it must be someplace in the shell. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Lindner | Microcomputer & Workstation Asst. Sun System Administrator | Networks Center lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu ||||| | | | | | | | |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!timbuk!cs.umn.edu!lindner From: lindner@cs.umn.edu (Paul Lindner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Background writes in csh Message-ID: <1990Sep25.225951.3550@cs.umn.edu> Date: 25 Sep 90 22:59:51 GMT References: <1990Sep19.203803.25798@cs.umn.edu> <1990Sep20.185147.14158@ping.uucp> Distribution: comp Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept. Lines: 24