On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 02:11:55AM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> 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".
thanx. works perfectly
> 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).
this one i knew and use it often. oh - can we imagine something like
this in dos? :)
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