Korn Shell on SVR4 (was: Is Unix V.4 a Kornshell system?)
Chris Calabrese
cjc at ulysses.att.com
Wed Sep 26 00:01:17 AEST 1990
In article <1990Sep20.171821.9033 at cbnewsc.att.com> pgn at cbnewsc.att.com (Novorolsky) writes:
>SVR4 supplies several shells, and yes, Korn shell is one of them.
>As an additional item, the SVR4 ksh has some new features,
>my favorite is job control. You can now move processes from foreground
>to background and back. (Nothing new to csh users..., BTW, csh
>is also supplied with SVR4.)
This is not a shell issue, but an OS issue. Ksh has had job control
for some years when run on OS' which support it. This includes BSD,
SunOS, some versions of System V hacked up by Dave Korn, and others.
It is standard System V which did not support job control, whether you
were using csh or ksh.
Name: Christopher J. Calabrese
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