[TUHS] Job Control and other terminal fun

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/30/23 11:31 AM, Ron Natalie wrote:

> Years later, I had left the BRL, spent three years as a Rutgers 
> administrator and was working for a small startup in Virginia.   There was 
> a MIPS workstation there.    I was slogging along using ed (my employees 
> always were amazed that if there was no emacs on the system, I just used 
> ed, having never learned vi).   Not thinking about it, I attempted to 
> retrieve a backgrounded job by typing “fg.”   To my surprise the shell 
> printed “Job control not enabled.”   Hmm, I say.  That sounds like my error 
> message.   “set -J” I type.   “Job control enabled.”   Hey! This is my 
> shell.    Turns out Doug Gwyn put my mods into his “System V on BSD” 
> distribution tape and it had made its way into the Mach code base and so 
> every Mach-derived system ended up with it.   Certainly, I found it convenient.

To tie a couple of recent threads together: Ron's shell ended up as /bin/sh
on the NeXT machines.

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