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 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:21:39 -0800 From: Matt Wilkie Reply-To: Matt Wilkie To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: how to bring job to foreground? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: X-IsSubscribed: yes > >and the console in which I suspended the script has not given me a > >prompt so I can't issue any more commands. > > What if you suspend it like "vi &" instead. That definitely gives me a > prompt and the "fg" command works. In future that is what I will do, however in this circumstance when I started the process I didn't know I was going to want to suspend it. (I was about to run out of disk space so I tried to pause tar long enough to let me make room. The pause worked, but I couldn't get it restarted again). -- -matt -- 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/