Re: [newbie] Use of ampersand in .rc files

2000-10-06 Thread Paul R
I'm not familiar with this program, but my understanding is that you end a comman in in order to be able to reuse the terminal and not have to leave it open and unusabel while the program is running. Try it was other programs. -Paul R Jeff Malka wrote: In using a command like xsetroot in a

[newbie] Use of ampersand in .rc files

2000-10-04 Thread Jeff Malka
In using a command like xsetroot in a .xinitrc or .bash_profile, etc, does one need to end the command line with a or not? Actual command is xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr -fg cyan -bg black Confused. Thanks. (Do not answer "Dear confused"):-)) Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered