> > What does 'jobs' say at that point? > emacs & > xemacs& > mozilla & > > leeloo:~> jobs > [2] + Running emacs > [3] - Running xemacs > [4] Running mozilla Which broken shell is it? the '+' and '-' are on the wrong jobs. sh and ksh seem to get it right... (doesn't look like a shell bug though) David -- David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk