From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from h005004cf6187.ne.client2.attbi.com ([65.96.159.27] ident=[NkBOne+oPSPeBw/Bfkgrjcrgv+etYfJ+]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16sDFQ-0004BE-00 for ; Mon, 01 Apr 2002 20:38:08 -0500 Received: (from wx1g@localhost) by h005004cf6187.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g321d5B14776; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 20:39:05 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: h005004cf6187.ne.client2.attbi.com: wx1g set sender to using -f From: "Dave Hunt <" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15529.3001.399266.150306@h005004cf6187.ne.client2.attbi.com> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 20:39:05 -0500 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: multi tasking In-Reply-To: <000401c1d953$a9f1e5c0$9089160c@robin> References: <000401c1d953$a9f1e5c0$9089160c@robin> X-Mailer: VM 7.01 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Reply-To: wx1g@attbi.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: There are a couple of ways to do this. You could use the program called 'screen'. This is a "window manager" that lets you use up to 10 virtual terminals on one login. You can start it as simply as "screen ", where is, for instance, lynx. You can switch among your running programs with "ctrl-a ". Another option (Speakup supports this well), is to login on many of the "virtual consoles", and switch among them with "alt-f1" through "alt-f6", unless you've defined more. Speakup offers a nice "copy-and-paste" mechanism for working with these many consoles. Finally, you could start one job, suspend it with "ctrl-z", start a second job, suspend that, and so on. You could then resume all these in background with "bg %". To attach to any job, do "fg %". -Dave