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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:23:43 -0800
From: Matt Wilkie <maphew AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: how to bring job to foreground?
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:17:26 -0800 (PST), Jeremy C. Reed
<reed AT reedmedia DOT net> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Matt Wilkie wrote:
> 
> > thanks for your help Jeremy.
> 
> You are welcome.
> 
> > Although -SIGCONT didn't completely work in this circumstance I'm glad
> > of the knowledge. I've encountered similar situations before and knew
> > there had to be _some_ way of reactivating a process from another
> > console. It never occured to read up on 'kill' in this context, what I
> > was attempting was precisely the opposite after all. :)
> 
> The strange thing I noticed with my tests with bash is that it still said
> job was suspended when really it was running (after the kill -SIGCONT).

Yeah, that's what I get too. I guess suspending apps with ctrl-z
instead of & on windows is still chancy.

-- 
-matt

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