idallen@watmath.UUCP (11/29/84)
> From mark@elsie.UUCP (Mark J. Miller) Tue Nov 20 13:33:08 1984 > > It doesn't have to. I fixed it. Stopping a job in a SOURCE'd file > > just stops the job. The shell continues with the next command in the > > file. My fix also means " a ; b ; c " behaves as documented; stopping > > process B lets process C start. -IAN! > That's a fix I don't want. I've often used ^Z to zap a series of type-ahead > jobs, when that was what I wanted it to do. Especially useful if one of those > jobs contains an error. You can use ^Z; fg to erase and start over again. > That's the trouble, isn't it. One persons bug is another's feature. The fix to the shell doesn't affect behaviour with type-ahead. How could it -- the shell hasn't even read the type-ahead! ^Z still flushes it. -- -IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) University of Waterloo