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Re: Spawning an interactive DCL from Eunice

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From: Larry Wall
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 1984 19:02
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In article <590@sjuvax.UUCP> jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro) writes:
>One of the frequently undocumented features of Eunice is the fact that if 
>FROM THE CSHELL one types "suspend" eunice will spawn a DCL job.  The
>limitation is that no LOGIN.COM file is processed by this command.

Another limitation is that ^Y won't work.  Woe betide if you say "dir/full"
in a directory with 1000 versions.  There's no way to stop it short of
killing the process.

Larry Wall
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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: net.eunice
Subject: Re: Spawning an interactive DCL from Eunice
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 14:02:59 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 14:02:59 1984
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Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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