CSH -- stopping job in SOURCE'd file

Mark J. Miller mark at elsie.UUCP
Wed Nov 21 04:33:08 AEST 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!  (Ian! D. Allen)      University of Waterloo

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.

					--elsie!mark

-- 
Mark J. Miller
NIH/NCI/DCE/LEC
UUCP:	decvax!harpo!seismo!elsie!mark
Phone:	(301) 496-5688



More information about the Comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes mailing list