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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
To: "'John Cooper'" <John DOT Cooper AT eu DOT citrix DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:40:04 -0400
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Might it wok the way you want if you write aliases or functions that supply
the & or launch with cygstart for the windows programs that you are likely
to use.  (Aliases would not work with programs to which you are supplying
arguments if the alias includes &.)

-----Original Message-----
From: John Cooper 
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 5:30 AM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs

[snip]

The problem is that I often don't want to have to terminate the GUI app just
to
get my shell prompt back.

[snip]

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