[Info-vax] CTRL/D Versus CTRL/Z

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <9c57ed8c-021a-47a5-820b-904775f81612 at googlegroups.com>,
lawrencedo99 at gmail.com writes: 

> Instead, CTRL/Z means _suspend the foreground process group_.  This is
> part of the job-control facility for managing multiple concurrent 
> processes. 

> Did VMS ever pick up the idea of foreground/background process groups?

As far as I know, no.  I think that this unix functionality using CTRL/Z
is one of the few things which unix has, VMS lacks, and I think would be
useful.  Some other things can be implemented in a roundabout way but
with essentially the same functionality, e.g.: 

   $ TOUCH :== APPEND/NEW NL: