dan@ttds.UUCP (Dan Sahlin) (08/23/84)
Has anyone implemented job control in Bourne shell (sh)? I do know about ksh from Bell, but it is impossible to get (we have tried several times). It would also be nice if the shell had a simple line-editor built in or on top. Dan Sahlin (..decvax!mcvax!enea!ttds!dan)
sja@ih1ap.UUCP (Steve Alesch) (08/28/84)
Has anyone implemented job control in Bourne shell (sh)? I do know about ksh from Bell, but it is impossible to get (we have tried several times). Yes, UNIX-TM System V Rel. 2. It would also be nice if the shell had a simple line-editor built in or on top. As far as I know this capability isn't available for general consumption, unfortunately. This is probably the best feature of ksh. -- Steve Alesch AT&T Technologies, Inc., Network Systems IH 8B-108, (312)979-3862, ...!ihnp4!ih1ap!sja
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (08/28/84)
I I have a copy of the Bourne shell with JOBS control but it is a system V source. I am currently retrofitting the JOBS in two a 4.2 shell so I can send out diffs to the net. If you can demonstrate that you have a System V license, I'll mail you one right away. -Ron
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (09/07/84)
UNIX-TM System V Rel. 2 does not have JOB control in the Bourne shell. It doesn't do jobs the same as berkeley. What they have is a program that uses pseudo ttys to switch between multiple shells on the terminal. What you get are a bunch of different shells who are switched by the shl command not the ability to track multiple processes with the same shell. The effort is not in the shell itself but in the shell layers utility. This has it's own merits. It gives you the functionality of the layers in the 5620, but of course without the windows or the graphics. -Ron
pedz@smu.UUCP (09/17/84)
Response to Guy Harris's response. The 5620 does redraw the screen (window) without notifying the controlling program. The 5620 also keeps track of which mode the various windows are in. Thus one window can be in VT100 mode while another is in Tek 4014 mode. I do not know it the bell people though about the key pad also. My question is "Is the communication switching done in a program or is it done down in the kernal?". I was told that it was down in the kernal and I thought at the time that it really need not be. Now it sounds like (from the base note to this response) that you run a special program to make the 5620 do its thing. Or did I miss something? Perry convex!smu!pedz
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (09/22/84)
PARSE ERROR: I do not know it the bell people though the key pad also. Help me. What does this mean?