Background writes in csh

Paul Lindner lindner at cs.umn.edu
Wed Sep 26 08:59:51 AEST 1990


gorpong at ping.uucp (Gordon C. Galligher) writes:

>>   alias ls 'ls -FC \!* |more'
>>
>>This works fine, however sometimes it stops both tasks and puts them in 
>>the background, (this is on various Suns using csh and tcsh).  Typing
>>fg restarts the listing.  This is really irritating, typing fg and all.

>More(1) is the problem here.  I have not quite figured it out, but I had a 
>similar problem when my users would type:  history | more and it would do
>[.........]

More(1) isn't the problem here, I tried using less for a while but I still
got the infamous:

Stopped (tty output)
[1] 21298 21299

So, it must be someplace in the shell.
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