[PLUG] A Simple Question

[Brian Beattie]

On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 22:24, Robbert van Andel wrote:
> This is a simple question, but I don't know how to pose it to Google to
> return the answer I'm looking for.  When I start a program from a
> terminal window, is there a way to for the program (like Evolution or
> Gaim) to continue to run normaly but return the prompt at th terminal
> window so i can execute other commands?  My main reason for asking is,
> sometimes I log into my computer via ssh and wish to run various
> applications at the same time remotely but need to log in using seperate
> clients to achieve this goal.
> 

put an ampersand at the end of the command line.

> Thanks for any help
> 
> -- 
> Robbert van Andel
> Website Developer
> Oregon Swimming, Inc.
> www.oregonswim.org
> 
> 
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