[26822] in Athena Bugs
Re: ooffice suspension
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Wed Apr 12 10:07:45 2006
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John Hawkinson wrote:
> Should I not be able to background ooffice, instead of having it
> block and wait for me to foreground it?
I know this topic has come up before in bugs, and I'd just to add that I
feel similarly.
Last term, when I TA'd 6.004, and was helping students in the 6.004 lab,
I ended up having the following conversation a few times:
[student runs jsim &] (jsim runs a Java jar file)
[student waits a while]
student: Why isn't jsim starting?
me: Type fg.
student: Why do I need to do that?
me: It's printing a message about a new version of Java. You won't need
to worry about it in the future.
student: huh?
It's unclear to me what send_message actually does, but if it just
printed a message without accepting some sort of input, it seems like it
would work fine with backgrounding. This would also fix the problem
with gnuplot that I reported recently.
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Kevin Chen
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