Eric Crist writes: > You can send a program into the background by trailing the command with > &&. So, if you want to run amp (an mp3 player), you could simply type: > > # amp song.mp3 &&
I thought '&' was background and "&&" meant "execute the foillowing command only if the previous command completed without error"? > An easier solution is to login to a second virtual terminal by > hitting Alt-F2 (all the way up to F7). Then just switch back by > pressing Alt-F1, or whichever terminal you were on before. And its Ctl-Alt-Fn, not Alt-Fn on my -Current system Robert Huff _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"