Re: putting multiple cmds in bg using &

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From: Bill Trost
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1989 21:10

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[Various people writing things about & in csh, including...]
Article <50009@bbn.COM>, by pplacewa@antares.bbn.com (Paul W
	Placeway):

>I'll have to re-read the csh man page, but at a glance I *swear* this
>is a csh misfeature (aka. deliberate bug).  The csh man page is vague.
>From csh(1):
	....

Though I can't find the reference at the moment, it seems as though
something stated that ';' had a higher precedence than '&' in the csh.

Sorry to belabor this in this mailing list --- the csh does it wrong,
in any case.

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Subject: Re: putting multiple cmds in bg using &
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