Might it wok the way you want if you write aliases or functions that supply the & or launch with cygstart for the windows programs that you are likely to use. (Aliases would not work with programs to which you are supplying arguments if the alias includes &.)
-----Original Message----- From: John Cooper Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 5:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ctrl-Z fails to suspend Windows programs [snip] The problem is that I often don't want to have to terminate the GUI app just to get my shell prompt back. [snip] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/