1 Jan
2023
1 Jan
'23
12:49 a.m.
Ralph Corderoy writes:
Hi Jon,
Just as history and line editing were a possible enhancement to the TTY
driver, didn't Pike comment that job control was cooked up in foreign
climes because they couldn't drag out a new TTY window in pixels?
Was something like screen(1)'s ‘Ctrl-A c’ considered in the TTY driver
to spin up another pseudo-TTY rather than suspend the long job with
Ctrl-Z and ‘bg’ it?
My memory is really fuzzy on this. I recall that job control came along
with csh which I used until bash. At the time there were hardly any
graphics displays used as interactive devices. I'm talking Berkeley job
control here; I seem to remember that someone got wedged into System V
that was awful and unusable.
Jon
I guess
in interactive use most users would only miss one thing:
the history & line editing capability?
Job control?