Re: suspend command - curious of function

2008-09-20 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:51:45PM +, ropers wrote: | 2008/9/20 Ingo Schwarze [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | In OpenBSD, most shell builtins and shell command aliases do not have | their own man page or man page symlink. Such symlinks should not be | added: Many shells have similar builtins, so

Re: suspend command - curious of function

2008-09-20 Thread Paul M
I agree entirely. While man(1) is great, which(1) is also an essential tool. Learn to love it. paul On 20/09/2008, at 7:27 PM, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:51:45PM +, ropers wrote: | 2008/9/20 Ingo Schwarze [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | In OpenBSD, most shell builtins and

Re: suspend command - curious of function

2008-09-20 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Paul M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree entirely. While man(1) is great, which(1) is also an essential tool. Learn to love it. ...if you are a csh user. Otherwise type is better than which.

suspend command - curious of function

2008-09-19 Thread Brian Drain
Hello - What does the suspend command do? I cannot find a man page on it, or entry in the FAQ, or anything useful in the mailing list archives or google (seems most deal with laptop suspend/restore).. When I type suspend at the cmd line, it drops me past the command line. Can't ^C or ^Z or

Re: suspend command - curious of function

2008-09-19 Thread Vladimir Kirillov
On 16:40 Fri 19 Sep, Brian Drain wrote: What does the suspend command do? I cannot find a man page on it, or entry in the FAQ, or anything useful in the mailing list archives or google (seems most deal with laptop suspend/restore).. When I type suspend at the cmd line, it drops me past the

Re: suspend command - curious of function

2008-09-19 Thread joshua stein
What does the suspend command do? I cannot find a man page on it, or entry in the FAQ, or anything useful in the mailing list archives or google (seems most deal with laptop suspend/restore).. When I type suspend at the cmd line, it drops me past the command line. it's a command built in to

Re: suspend command - curious of function

2008-09-19 Thread Danny Cautaert
On 2008-09-19, Brian Drain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does the suspend command do? Assuming your shell is /bin/ksh, ksh(1) documents what the suspend command does. -- Greetings from Oostende (BE) -*- Danny Cautaert (DaCa) Write me in Dutch, French or English * GnuPG: 10731977 Meet me at

Re: suspend command - curious of function

2008-09-19 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Brian, Brian Drain wrote on Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 04:40:14PM -0500: What does the suspend command do? It's a shell command alias. Look out for the line suspend='kill -STOP $$' in ksh(1). I cannot find a man page on it, In OpenBSD, most shell builtins and shell command aliases do not

Re: suspend command - curious of function

2008-09-19 Thread ropers
2008/9/20 Ingo Schwarze [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In OpenBSD, most shell builtins and shell command aliases do not have their own man page or man page symlink. Such symlinks should not be added: Many shells have similar builtins, so which shell's man page would you link? Would it be useful to have

Re: suspend command - curious of function

2008-09-19 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:51:45PM +, ropers wrote: 2008/9/20 Ingo Schwarze [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In OpenBSD, most shell builtins and shell command aliases do not have their own man page or man page symlink. Such symlinks should not be added: Many shells have similar builtins, so which