"Irsan S. P. Siregar" wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> How do you put a full screen program to run in the background?
>
> With my shell account (FreeBSD w/ csh), I usually use Ctrl-Z,
> and type bg 1 to put a background FTP session (telephone cost
> a lot down here). How do you achieve the same thing with full
> screen program like pico? pico said Ctrl-Z is not a known command.
Look into a program called 'screen'. It'll do what you're looking for.
I haven't ever played with it so I'm not sure how well it works.
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Steve Philp
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