Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" To: "ML CygWIN" Subject: RE: OT: to be "nice", or not... Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 00:37:17 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20030806174819.GB25006@butch.jgcomp.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf > Of Jon LaBadie > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:42:04PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen > (garbage mail) wrote: --8<-- > > *The point* is beeing able to launch the time/cpu-consuming > > task and then "append" the paging later. > > > > The obvious is to concatenate "cat ..." with the line above it > > - but this is NOT the answer I'm asking for. > > $ ( > > long task > > second task > > ) & > $ > jl No, the first task doesn't start until you've finished typing. Your suggestion is like the "obvious" thing above, but thanks for trying. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems - 59?14'N, 17?12'E --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/