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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 12:31:49 +0100
From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: ^Z behaviour
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I got a phone call from a (otherwise happy) FreeBSD customer
who is using FreeBSD 2.0.5 in an industrial production environment
(btw) and he is 'complaining' about the ^Z behaviour.

His users were happy users of the med editor (ex PCS people, 
when will be a port of med available? Jordan, are you listening ?:-)
and have this ^Z built into their finger memory. So it happens
that they send vi permanently into background, wondering and starting
over with a pile of vi sessions in bg.

I tried stty susp ^P or something but it seems that the ^Z
behaviour is built into vi.

Any ideas how to help these people?


--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de