Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <000801be6e79$b6dc4660$8c3b4ec6@hunda> From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "David's Lightspeed Email" , Subject: Re: Job Control in the Bourne Shell Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:21:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 > > March 14th, 1999 > >In response to my question yesterday about Job Control in the Bourne Shell, >I've since then learned that it is included as a standard part of the shell >in SVR4 versions and later. > >Thanks everyone for your feedback on the KSH yesterday. I downloaded the >MKS version, and have been experimenting with it for the last day. > >One thing to note, though, is that MKS includes the VI editor with their >package. Why doesn't Cygwin include some equivalent of this? For the life >of me, I hate VI and prefer Emacs. But it is sometimes nice to have it >around for quick editing on the fly. It also comes in handy for Command >Line editing too. Vi (Vim is available as a separate package from ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/ Sometimes you just have to go back to http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/link.html and dig out what you need. There is apparantly much more stuff available Cygwin then MKS Toolkit. --SMS > > David L. Painter > dpainter AT prontomail DOT com > dpainter AT lightspeed DOT net > ph: (559) 292-5366 * 3 > fax:(559) 292-0410 > > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com