On Sunday 30 June 2002 7:16 pm, Kolbe Kegel wrote: > it sounds like he's a little confused about what ctrl-z does... he says > he uses it to send the process to the "background", but that's not what > ctrl-z does at all. ctrl-z just *stops* the process. while stopped, it > can't do anything. it can't respond to input, create output, or receive > events from blackbox or anything else. what you need to do to send the > process to the background is press ctrl-z and then type "bg", as martin > illustrated in his example but didn't point out explicitly.
Hi Kolbe I was assuming my emple was exactly what Ciprian was doing, as he said > >* in the first window I press ctrl-z and send the second to background As he goes on to say > >* when I return to foreground in the first window ($ fg) the second and fg is known and used, I presumed bg was too. I was curious if the effect he was seeing (assuming bg used) was related to the problem in the alpha series somewhere, where windows didn't appear to close correctly - hence asking the version he's using. Of course this is based on a lot of assumptions, and as a former collegue of mine was fond of saying "'Assume nothing!' should be tattooed on the inside of your eyelids". Second guessing our users calling the helpdesk at work can be amusing at times ;) Regards, Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dbg400.net /"\ DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open \ / Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc) X Debian GNU/Linux | ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news / \
