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From: John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: some dired hints should be background jobs
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:00:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877kbh9v5q.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303022330.RAA07753@eel.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Sun, 2 Mar 2003 17:30:26 -0600 (CST)")

>>>>> Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu> writes:

> I know so little about MS Windows (I use GNU/Linux) that I do not
> really understand the above.  Do you mean we could not make "xpdf *
> &" the default because MS Windows does not understand & and hence
> it would not be portable?  Does MS Windows have a notion of job
> control?  It must have a notion of asynchronous command since it is
> a windowing system.

Yep, that's exactly what I mean.  On some Windows shells you can use
"start", but not all.  In fact, I don't believe there is any common
way of backgrounding a job that gets run via shell invocation.

This could mean that "&" is just a UNIX(ish) thing.

John

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-03  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-01  3:41 some dired hints should be background jobs Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-02 22:10 ` John Wiegley
2003-03-02 23:30   ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-03  0:00     ` John Wiegley [this message]
2003-03-03  0:33       ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-03  1:16         ` Luc Teirlinck
2003-03-03  4:13       ` Eli Zaretskii

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