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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-06-30 10:33, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.

This is actually a very funny/interesting topic/question.

RSX is the other way around. By default *everything* is in the 
background (using Unix terms). It's like every command you typed were 
done with an '&' at the end of the line.

I can understand why VMS would not want this by default, but I would 
have thought that it would still be possible if you dug enough into the 
internals... But maybe not.

I do agree that being able to run several commands in parallel is a very 
useful thing from time to time.

	Johnny