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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: BSD job control
Date: 18 Oct 1993 11:21:10 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: lylec@westminster.ac.uk's message of Sun, 17 Oct 1993 21:38:09 GMT


In article <CF29H8.AMI@westminster.ac.uk> lylec@westminster.ac.uk
(Jiri Kantor) writes:

   "Is job control necessary or desirable? .......

For what it's worth, I use a shell with no job control, and I don't
miss it.