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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Help with emacs shell - no job control
Date: 15 Oct 1996 22:15:28 GMT
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mvh@netcom.com (Michael Harding) wrote:

> When I launch a shell under Emacs 19.31 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 release CD,
> the shell states "cannot reach terminal, thus no job control under
> shell" or something simlilar.  If I run a PS -l, I see that that the
> pty that the shell is using for input has a "-" after it, meaning that
> the shell can't access it.  I can't do a control-c to stop a big job.
> This was not the behaviour with the 2.1 CD, neither with 19.34 at work
> under Solaris 2.5, any hints?

...neither happens it on my systems, but that's all with older
versions of Emacs (19.27 and 19.29, IIRC).

-- 
cheers, J"org

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