This seems to have got lost in the original thread, but IMO is probably the 
more important issue. It would be nice to get some clarification on it.
 
> A)
> The Foreign conjunction 2!:1 does not behave as specified in the
> dictionary:
> ==============
> 2!:1 y
> Spawn. (Unix only.) Like 2!:0, but yields '' without waiting for the
> host to finish. Any output is ignored. For example, 2!:1 can be used to
> invoke a text-editor.
> ==============
> 
> In fact 2!:1 does wait for the host to finish before continuing to
> process a terminal session.  There does not seem to be any difference
> in behaviour between the following two commands.
>   2!:1 'gedit'
>   2!:0 'gedit'
 
Can/Should this be fixed to behave as specified?

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