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RE: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: 'John Cooper' <John dot Cooper at eu dot citrix dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:40:04 -0400
- Subject: RE: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs
Might it wok the way you want if you write aliases or functions that supply
the & or launch with cygstart for the windows programs that you are likely
to use. (Aliases would not work with programs to which you are supplying
arguments if the alias includes &.)
-----Original Message-----
From: John Cooper
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 5:30 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs
[snip]
The problem is that I often don't want to have to terminate the GUI app just
to
get my shell prompt back.
[snip]
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