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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