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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