jobs

[Toby Fisher]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi all. Just as an experiment, I attempted to put Lynx in the background
> and Freeamp was streaming a radio station that I just happened to be
> listening to. I suspended the job and put job 1 in the background, because
> I had no other jobs running. It ran fine and I was sitting at the bash
> prompt, however when I typed a command, the job got killed. Does anyone
> know why this happens? I think that it is very interesting, considering
> that a cp and/or erasing job on a Cd for example would run fine after
> being suspended and switched to a background process. Could this have to
> do that Lynx can't run in the background if it is running an imbedded
> application such as Freeamp? Thanks in advance for any info regarding
> this!

Lynx does not appreciate being put into the background, even when, for
example, doing an ftp download.  Still, with 6 consoles to play with, I
haven't run out yet, though I have come close. *grin*

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