Network News Transfer Protocol
system is discussed in detail in RFC850. It runs on most versions
of UNIX and on many other operating systems, and is customarily
distributed without charge.
USENET uses a spooling area on the UNIX host to store news articles,
one per file. Each article consists of a series of heading text,
which contain the sender's identification and organizational
affiliation, timestamps, electronic mail reply paths, subject,
newsgroup (subject category), and the like. A complete news article
is reproduced in its entirety below. Please consult RFC850 for more
details.
Relay-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site
sdcsvax.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 SMI; site unitek.uucp
Path:sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!qantel!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!unitek
!honman
From: honman@unitek.uucp (Man Wong)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: foreground -> background ?
Message-ID: <167@unitek.uucp>
Date: 25 Sep 85 23:51:52 GMT
Date-Received: 29 Sep 85 09:54:48 GMT
Reply-To: honman@unitek.UUCP (Hon-Man Wong)
Distribution: net.all
Organization: Unitek Technologies Corporation
Lines: 12
I have a process (C program) which generates a child and waits for
it to return. What I would like to do is to be able to run the
child process interactively for a while before kicking itself into
the background so I can return to the parent process (while the
child process is RUNNING in the background). Can it be done? And
if it can, how?
Please reply by E-mail. Thanks in advance.
Hon-Man Wong
RFC977 February 1986
Network News Transfer Protocol
5. References
[1] Crocker, D., "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text
Messages", RFC-822, Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Delaware, August, 1982.
[2] Horton, M., "Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages",
RFC-850, USENET Project, June, 1983.
[3] Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol- DARPA Internet
Program Protocol Specification", RFC-793, USC/Information
Sciences Institute, September, 1981.
[4] Postel, J., "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", RFC-821,
USC/Information Sciences Institute, August, 1982.
6. Acknowledgements
The authors wish to express their heartfelt thanks to those many
people who contributed to this specification, and especially to Erik
Fair and Chuq von Rospach, without whose inspiration this whole thing
would not have been necessary.
7. Notes
<1> UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.