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Subject: Re: backgrounded jobs
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On 10/06/99 10:48:06 Elliott Hughes  wrote:

> something i had in my own hacked-about copy of
> Byron's rc is a line that output not just the pid of
> a backgrounded job, rather the string "kill %i\n", on
> the basis that this was the number one use of the
> pid. it's particularly handy in 9term, but probably
> just as useful in xterm.
>
> how would people feel about making this part of
> the distribution?

Mutter, grumble. Doesn't sound right to me - not in rc. It sounds more es-ish to
me. :-)

Mind you, I'm the one who made Wily's no-arg Kill print a list of the likely
Kill commands, so who am I to complain?

And I don't even use rc, so my opinion doesn't even count.

steve