Date:         Mon, 2 Jun 1997 13:24:50 GMT
Reply-To:     Dave Scocca <scocca@GIBBS.OIT.UNC.EDU>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Dave Scocca <scocca@GIBBS.OIT.UNC.EDU>
Organization: The Jack Voigt Fan Club
Subject:      Re: Underground SAS on Unix -Reply

In article <Pine.A32.3.91.970530221105.61566C-100000@pegasus.unm.edu>,
Raymond V. Liedka <liedka@UNM.EDU> wrote:
 
\ This is a little late, but there might still be some interest.
 
\ I had indicated in a posting that running a job in the background with
\ the ampersand (typing at the prompt:  sas jobname &  )  would allow one
\ to log off.  Several helpful folks indicated that while that does set a
\ job running in the background, the job would end execution when I logged
\ off.
 
\ Well..it turns out that for the modified C-shell (sinified by "tcsh"  rather
\ than just "csh") it seems that running a job in the background DOES allow you
\ to logout without interruption.
 
I believe this is also true of the standard C-shell (csh), at least on
some machines.
 
I've been working on a Sun recently (Solaris 2.5) and have found that
ampersand-backgrounding works just fine in both tcsh and csh.
 
ksh is another story--it won't do it.
 
Dave
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