heh, never even saw this message.  Basically use & after the command to break it
from the terminal window, e.g. 

> netscape &

will start netscape (if it's in your path) and break it from the terminal so you
can close the term and not lose netscape.

> \_ just loaded mandrake 7.2 and because i'm always chatting online with
> \_ friends i decided to load yahoo messenger when done. to open this
> \_ program i simply have to type the command from a terminal window, but
> \_ if that terminal window is closed the program also closes. anyway to
> \_ run a program like that without having to open the terminal window?
> 
> golly.  a whole week went by on this and noone said anything about
> 'screen'.
> 
> oh.us is way cold.  Like order-of-magnitude colder, depending on your
> scale.  :-)