Here's a job control conundrum for you.

[Steven W. Orr]

I go to work in the morning and ssh in to my 'puter at home. I run alpine 
which is my preferred text mail interface.

At the end of the day I don't want to cleanly exit from alpine (for 
reasons that are not important). Instead I want to kill it.

I ^Z out of alpine so I have a stopped job. Here's where it gets 
interesting:

If I say killall -1 alpine there's no effect.
If I say kill -1 %1 it does what I want.

Anyone understand this?

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