On 10 Nov 1998q, D'jinnie wrote: > :Can I switch to another virtual terminal and start X Windows while I've > :got something else going on in the first vterm, such as a download or a > :dselect session, etc? > > I'm sure you've already gotten a million positive responses :) However, in > my experience, it's not a good idea to switch to console too often - once > in a while, X crashes (at least, it does for me, on 3 entirely different > machines), which will kill your download and everything else... >
I've never had this problem. Indeed, one of the things that's most astonished and impressed me about linux, coming from Dos, is that I can start lynx and/or ncftp in at least 3 different consoles and download different files simultaneously. There probably is a bit of slowdown but it's not obvious. It NEVER crashes. And this is on a humble DX486/100 with 20 meg memory. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald