10-28-2019
So I tried what both of you said and it still does not do anything. I looked and I am running KSH 2020.0.0 Stable, which is the latest release. I tried to compile KSH93u and KSH93v from the ast github but both failed due to lack of nmake. Every time I run ksh the prompt is still $.
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suspend
suspend(1) User Commands suspend(1)
NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell
SYNOPSIS
sh
suspend
csh
suspend
ksh
suspend
DESCRIPTION
sh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
csh
Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.
ksh
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)