From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] no job control; thank you!
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:13:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0207181006520.18306-100000@athena> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2bcd7eda708abfabe83b034959559f58@vitanuova.com>
> > Suppose you start some long-running task but soon realize that it's
> > going to run out of disk space. It is very useful to be able to
> > temporarily stop the task, rearrange files on the disks to make room,
> > then resume the task. Some form of control over an executing process
> > is required for such things.
>
It sure would be nice to have this control built into one of the mouse
button menus similar to how the backdrop shows hidden windows. I can't
imagine it being very clean without mouse submenus, though.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-18 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-18 15:02 rog
2002-07-18 14:13 ` Sam [this message]
2002-07-18 16:19 ` matt
2002-07-18 16:34 ` Lucio De Re
2002-07-18 21:37 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-30 16:18 David Gordon Hogan
2002-07-30 5:11 Russ Cox
2002-07-18 14:53 forsyth
2002-07-18 3:49 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-18 14:21 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-07-18 3:23 Geoff Collyer
2002-07-18 18:30 ` Chet Ramey
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