hanging jobs

[Brain in Neutral]

>From article <8876 at cbmvax.UUCP>, by grr at cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins):
> Mail seems to always do this, though perhaps only if you are in the
> message entry mode.  Gnu-emacs alledgely gets stuck in a loop if you
> have modified a buffer and it asks if you want it saved.
> 
> I don't know if these are simply application problems or whether Ultrix
> is doing somethign a teensy bit different than other BSD systems that
> causes the problem.

I've seen the mailer loop on a 4.2BSD system as well, so it isn't just
Ultrix-specific; perhaps inherited from BSD.

Paul DuBois
dubois at primate.wisc.edu