Sometime Today, USM Bish assembled some asciibets to say:
> In practical usage though, the 'bg' is not that critical, and one
> may start another process immediately after the 'Ctrl-z'. At any
> later stage you can bring the old process back with 'fg'. I have
> never faced any problem at any stage because of the omission of 'bg'
> command after Ctrl-z.
well, if you want the program to keep running, then bg is required.
otherwise, the program will just stay stopped.
on a related note, I've noticed a lot of people who come from MSDOS use
Ctrl+Z to close files/logins. They even think it works.
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