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10.0;bon, revision 1.0, 88/01/21
bon - Activate the shell's -b flag.
usage:  bon



DESCRIPTION
     bon activates the shell's -b (display output of background process) flag.
     You can also activate the flag by using the -b option on the sh command
     line when the shell is invoked.  The boff command deactivates the -b
     flag.  By default, the flag is off when a shell is invoked.

     This flag causes the shell to send the output of a background process
     (created with the & parsing operator) to the display.  The output of the
     background process is displayed in the transcript pad of the shell where
     it was invoked.

     You turn bon on in a shell script.  It remains on until that shell script
     exits, or until you override it by a boff command in a nested shell
     script.  When a shell script exits, the state of execution tracing is
     returned to the state in effect just before you invoked the script.

     bon requires no arguments or options.

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