roy%io@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Roy Bixler) (11/28/89)
Brian, It turns out that 'notify=' does work in Bash 1.04 just as 'set notify' does in the C shell to asynchronously notify of completion of background jobs. The catch is, my environment is the CMU shell mode of GNU Emacs. So, this is not a problem with Bash 1.04, but rather a problem of shell-running mode in GNU Emacs (the same problem occurs with M-x shell). It is very curious how these shell modes in Emacs seem to hold the output of the shell until an external command (something to do with standard error output processing?). Anyway, thanks for your follow-through, Brian! Roy Bixler roy@sts.COM