> Nifty. However, the window change thing doesn't seem to work when the job is > started in the background as 'spinner &' (neither on the OpenBSD system I > ssh in to nor in a couple of Linux systems I tried from there), and starting > it in the foreground rather precludes useful work.
I found that too, the work around is to specify the options explicitly: ./spinner -s "/-\|" 0.5 & +Pete
