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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-03 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ 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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2003-02-28 21:33 Dan Jacobson
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