hbergh@oracle.nl (Herbert van den Bergh) (10/10/90)
This is one of the things on my wish list for Elm: When I want to read a large mailbox (>100 messages) Elm needs quite some time to read the mailbox and sort the messages. During this process Elm displays a counter to monitor its progress. Looks real nice, but I don't want to sit and wait for minutes looking at these numbers. So I thought I start Elm in the background and get it to the foreground when it's done reading in the mailbox. The systems I tried this on support job control (of course): SunOs 4.0.3c csh and bash 1.05 and IBM RISC System/6000 AIX3.1 ksh. However, as soon as elm is started in the background, it is stopped, because it tried to output to the tty. I modified some source files (that's what they are for, isn't it) to stop Elm from displaying these startup messages, but still it stops. It seems the ioctl() calls to setup the terminal also cause the process to stop. Did anyone of you try to do the same thing? Did you succeed? Is it worth anything to you if I get this to work and submit it? Is it something to be put in the next release? Thanks for your attention. Herbert. -- Herbert van den Bergh, Email: hbergh@oracle.nl, hbergh@oracle.com ORACLE Europe