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RE: OT: to be "nice", or not...


> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Jon LaBadie

> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:42:04PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen 
> (garbage mail) wrote:

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> > *The point* is beeing able to launch the time/cpu-consuming 
> > task and then "append" the paging later.
> > 
> > The obvious is to concatenate "cat ..." with the line above it
> >  - but this is NOT the answer I'm asking for.
> 
>   $ (
>   > long task
>   > second task
>   > ) &
>   $ 
> jl

 No, the first task doesn't start until you've finished typing.
Your suggestion is like the "obvious" thing above, but thanks for trying.

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems - 59?14'N, 17?12'E
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