Subject: Suspend [^Z] Function Intermittent

From: [email-masked] (Steve Sohn)
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 14:31:15 GMT

I have found that if I used the suspend function [^Z] to return to the 
prompt more than once, sometimes twice, it becomes inoperative. That is, 
after one or two uses, it no longer works.

Anybody have any insight on this?
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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 20:32:57 -0400

> Anybody have any insight on this?

    Ummm, just how is it you are doing this?  When you say you suspend 
with ^Z, I presume you are on some flavor of Un*x.  ^Z puts a running 
process in the background.  Are you returning pine to the foreground with 
the 'fg' command, or are you starting up additional copies of pine?  I am 
no Un*x guru, but it is conceivable that if you start up too many copies 
of the same process, something could be tripping over something else.  (I 
do know from experience that having multiple copies of pine running can 
cause a folder, such as the INBOX, to go read-only.)

Paul
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