On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 04:40:35PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >[latest Cygwin DLL and all updates] > >Hi, > >I cannot suspend applications (like Midnight Commander) in a running >shell (bash or Zsh) - nothing happens. Nevertheless when I run mc (for >instance) in screen session then it works as expected: > >% mc ~ > >[1] + 5752 suspended mc >% > >I vaguely remember that it used to be possible to suspend applications >from a standard shell... Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
Try using mintty or rxvt. You can't suspend processes running in a console window (like CMD) unless they are waiting for input. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
