In <1992Aug21.061056.3538@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@boromir.eecs.wsu.edu writes:

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>  In article <1992Aug20.223208.29133@sol.UVic.CA>, pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
>  |> It seems that sometimes the console ignores ^C and  ^Z.  I have seen this
>  |> during "make" and during "tail".   But at other times it works just fine.
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>  Same is here. But since I switched to zsh and gnu make I compiled myself, that
>  problem is gone. I suspect the shell you are using is too old.

I had the same problem until I found that the shell from the 0.12
distribution, calling itself version 0.00.03, had the job control
features thaken out, and the new ones, 1.xx.xx, worked fine.
There are other problems with old utilities, like 'ln -s' will not
work.

MfG,
        Olaf
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