Sure, but the BSD convention meets that until you hit ^T, and then it does the thing the user wants (give a report) and then it goes back to being silent. Ther

Sure, but the BSD convention meets that until you hit ^T, and then it does the thing the user wants (give a report) and then it goes back to being silent. There's nothing wrong with that, and the BSDs are Unixen, so... It's not like ^Z (SIGTSTOP) is un-Unix-like just because Unix VII (and System V) didn't have it!