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Re: job control for the es shell



rog@vitanuova.com writes:
    > A feature, which IMHO is badly missing form the es shell, is job
    > control.

    out of interest, what does job control give you that you can't get
    quite easily via virtual terminals?

"Oh rats, I need to reboot my Windoze box *again*, but I don't want to
interrupt that job I started half an hour ago. I know, I can just put it
into the background."