fp Termcap issue

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, May 29, 2009, Fairlight wrote:
>>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Bill Campbell shouted:
>> 
>> It's a Good Idea(tm) to disable job control for programs like FilePro where
>> the users most likely don't have any understanding of background processes.
>> When we were teaching Unix classes, it wasn't uncommon for students to have
>> multiple copies of ``vi'' running in the background when they hit ctrl-Z
>> instead of SHIFT-Z.
>> 
>> This is easy to do on *nix systems with a couple of commands in
>
>Sure, it's easy to do...  But...-why-?  That's like saying people have a
>habit of running red lights when learning to drive, so you should remove
>turning signals from the car while they learn to drive...  *boggle*

It's one thing to do this with developers and programmers, but
entirely different when dealing with data-entry people who can't
be expected to understand what's going on.  This might come under
the principle of least surprise.

Bill
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