On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 06:07:03PM -0500, David Waite wrote:
> Just curious- when I installed hurd on a spare partition a lil time ago (I
> killed it with a misargument to settrans, and couldn't figure out how to get
> things to work right again), I had a problem with suspending applications -
> Ctrl+Z would kill the program. Does this still happen?

Well, it sometimes is dangerous to use CTRL-Z, so I prefer to avoid it on
lengthy compiles. But it works almost for me.
 
> Until screen works I guess I can use emacs- I just can't stand to leave the
> machine alone while doing long compiles :)

Yes, screen would be very useful. Maybe we have more luck with latest glibc.

Marcus

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