From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] no job control; thank you!
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:13:41 -0400
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> > 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