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Re: some dired hints should be background jobs
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John Wiegley |
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Re: some dired hints should be background jobs |
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Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:00:01 -0700 |
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>>>>> Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:
> I know so little about MS Windows (I use GNU/Linux) that I do not
> really understand the above. Do you mean we could not make "xpdf *
> &" the default because MS Windows does not understand & and hence
> it would not be portable? Does MS Windows have a notion of job
> control? It must have a notion of asynchronous command since it is
> a windowing system.
Yep, that's exactly what I mean. On some Windows shells you can use
"start", but not all. In fact, I don't believe there is any common
way of backgrounding a job that gets run via shell invocation.
This could mean that "&" is just a UNIX(ish) thing.
John