thanks for the reply: I was trying to use CTRL-Z after opening up a windows program (such as emacs -- the windows version or excel)
Suspend will work if I perform it on the sleep command. 1> sleep 20 Suspended 2> Why won't it suspend If I type the following: 1> emacs & [1] 1668 2> emacs The first command opens up my emacs (for windows) program and runs it in the background (so I can still use the prompt). So, I assume if this capability is there, then it should also be able to put it in the background after I have already opened it. However, when I type the second command, I can't use CTRL-Z to put it in the background. Do you know why this is? >Can't duplicate it here. If I set CYGWIN=tty prior to starting bash and >then type: > >c:\>bash >bash$ sleep 20 >bash$ CTRL-Z > >it suspends the sleep. > >cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/