[PLUG] A Simple Question

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, 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.

Robbert,

  Take a look at the documentation for the bash shell (I assume that's what
you're running) and read the section on running processes in the background.

Rich

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