Interactive Background Processes

[John F. Haugh II]

In an earlier posting I was discussion background processes in 5.0 and
mentioned how not all implementations were capable of running multiple
background jobs.  Someone from SCO sent me a letter and here is the
text of it:

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|> unfortunately, not all of the modern unix implementations have sxt's and
|> the shell layer manager.  for example, the plexus doesn't have any of
|> those things.  the wyse, running xenix, does, but only has one control
|> sxt so only one instance of shl can be running.
|>
|>- john.
|>-- 
|
| If you want to run more than one instance of shell layers,
| run configure(C) and raise NSXT from its default of 1.
| No inherent limitation here.  
|	--amy
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