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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!hookup!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!longacre.demon.co.uk From: searle@longacre.demon.co.uk (Michael Searle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD woes. Help needed here! ;( Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 21:28:01 BST Lines: 12 Message-ID: <nD81ECDEF@longacre.demon.co.uk> References: <31b1c4d4.2162750@news.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: longacre.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: longacre.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Offlite 0.09 / Termite Internet for Acorn RISC OS push@panix.com (SeVeN) wrote: > Using X: how do ppl usually start programs in X with?? I've been > starting them inside the Xterms or with the login term. however for many > programs I keep having to do ^Z and then bg just to get my xterm control > back and have the program not terminate. I put ' &' on the end to run it in the background, giving control back to the xterm that I ran it from. -- Michael Searle - searle@longacre.demon.co.uk