heya, On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:13:01PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > i wanted to know if there is a way to put a program in background > without stopping it. so i start links, put it in background while it > loads a page and fetch it in foreground after finishing of something > inbetween.
^Z puts it stopped in the background. to tell it to keep on going,
type "bg". to bring it back into the foreground again, type "fg".
you can also background a program explicitly from the commandline
by putting an "&" at the end of the line (which does more or less the
same thing as ^Z + bg).
hth
sean
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