X terminal.

[Don Harrop]

That's exactly what I wanted to know.  Thank you!
I like being proficient at the command line.

Don
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <rutledge@cx47646-a.phnx1.az.home.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: X terminal.


> On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 09:48:49PM -0700, Mark Peoples wrote:
> > You mean like put the app into background, but still have it usable?
> >
> > try, eg:  netscape &
> >
> > Stick an & on the end
>
> Right.  And that's a shell feature, has nothing to do with X; so you can
> also do it with textual apps or apps that don't produce any output.
>
> In addition, there are several other useful job control commands.  With
> most apps, including X apps, if you forget the "&" initially, you can
> hit control-z while the xterm has the input focus; that will suspend the
> application (it's still in memory but not allowed to have any CPU cycles).
> Then type "bg" to have it run in the background; the effect is the same
> as if you'd initially used the & at the end of the command line.  "fg"
brings
> the most recently suspended app back to the foreground.  If several apps
> have been started and then suspended or backgrounded, you will see them
> when you type the command "jobs":
>
> [electron:~][9:57:28pm] jobs
> [1]  - Suspended                     mutt
> [2]  + Suspended                     less version.txt
>
> and you can restore any job back to the foreground by typing %x where x
> is the number shown in brackets.  So in the example if I type %1, mutt
will
> come back into the foreground.  This is how it was possible in the old
> days to multitask when all you have is a dumb terminal (still very useful
> now when you telnet into a remote unix system).
>
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