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Re: [SM-Discuss] Is it possible to pause sorcery or cast?
- From: "Robert Helgesson" <rycee AT home.se>
- To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Is it possible to pause sorcery or cast?
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:03:03 +0200
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 11:37:07 +0200, Rohan Nicholls wrote:
> I understand that killing the process while compiling is a bad idea, but
> does it mess up the queue or internal housekeeping to stop cast when it
> is asking you questions? ie. before it starts installing a new
> package. And if it does would it be possible to add an option to allow
> a user to pause its execution, have it save its current state to be
> continued later?
When you are running a program (any program, including cast) in the
terminal you can always put is to sleep by pressing the key combination
Ctrl-z, this places the program in the background in a sleeping state,
you can see and it's id number it if you run the "jobs" command. You can
then wake it up again by running "fg <id num>" or in bash "%<id num>".
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[SM-Discuss] Is it possible to pause sorcery or cast?,
Rohan Nicholls, 08/04/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Is it possible to pause sorcery or cast?,
Ondra Tomecka, 08/04/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Is it possible to pause sorcery or cast?, Rohan Nicholls, 08/04/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Is it possible to pause sorcery or cast?,
Eric Sandall, 08/04/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Is it possible to pause sorcery or cast?, Paul Mahon, 08/04/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Is it possible to pause sorcery or cast?, Robert Helgesson, 08/04/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Is it possible to pause sorcery or cast?,
Andrew, 08/04/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Is it possible to pause sorcery or cast?,
Eric Schabell, 08/04/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Is it possible to pause sorcery or cast?, Rohan Nicholls, 08/05/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Is it possible to pause sorcery or cast?,
Eric Schabell, 08/04/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Is it possible to pause sorcery or cast?,
Ondra Tomecka, 08/04/2004
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