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RE: OT: to be "nice", or not...
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" <garbage_collector at telia dot com>
- To: "ML CygWIN" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 00:37:17 +0200
- Subject: 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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