That sure helped. This note is a keeper. Lots of good stuff that I've been wondering about but haven't asked yet. Rejean Proulx Visit my family at http://interfree.ca MSN is: rejp at rogers.com Ham License VA3REJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:44 PM Subject: Re: Sendmail Wpon't work > Hi: > > Just to clarify something here. The end-of-file character in Unix is > control-D, not control-Z. Control-Z will often let you suspend programs, > particularly useful if you're on a remote connection. You can then resume > such a suspended program using the fg command. You can have multiple > programs suspended and foreground any of them at will by using the command > "fg %number" where number is the number you see when you suspend it. You > can also use "bg" to background a task where this is appropriate. You can > list all suspended processes with the "jobs" command. If you try to logout > with jobs suspended, the shell will warn you that "You have stopped jobs". > If you logout again, it will let you do it and kill off the jobs. Finally, > if you want to kill a suspended job, you can use "kill %number" where > number is the job number as described above. > > Hope this helps. > > Geoff. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
