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 Message 486 
 Wilfred van Velzen to mark lewis 
 Re: gpg "live" editor 
 09 Jan 20 20:36:21 
 
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Hi mark,

On 2020-01-09 14:11:18, you wrote to me:

 >> When I type Ctrl-Z in my linux shell it has the same effect as Ctrl-C:
 >> gpg ends and I back at the shell prompt.

 ml> yeah, i thought about that after i sent the message but it was aimed at a
 ml> win/DOS user so no problems there...

 ml> on my linux CTRL-Z doesn't terminate the program... it suspends the
process
 ml> but leaves it in memory... you can then use the fg command to bring the
job
 ml> back to living action in the foreground... if you have more than one
 ml> process you have done CTRL-Z on, you can bring them back by "fg x" where
 ml> 'x' is job number found by running the "jobs" command...

Actually that was what happend in my shell too. But I didn't notice what was
happening. I could actually find the gpg job where I tested Ctrl-Z a couple of
days back. It was still in the background of my shell. ;-)

I've killed it now. Thanks for the learning experience! ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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