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From: walter@hpsad.HP.COM (Walter Coole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: A Free Terminal
Message-ID: <770023@hpsad.HP.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 90 02:09:30 GMT
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Organization: HP Signal Analysis Div - Rohnert Park, CA
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I think what you want to do is launch a background process.  The standard way
to do this in unix is:

      command-and-arguments &

many commands can have their standard inputs and outputs redirected to/from
files:

    command-and-arguments <file-for-input >file-for-output &

For some programs that need a bunch of interaction to start them up job control
is useful; at any point one can type the SUSPEND character, which gives one
the shell prompt, one can then type:
    
    bg

to allow the process to continue in background.  Not all versions of unix
support full job control.  My recollection is that all versions of HPUX for
800 series do, and 6.0 on for 300 series do, but that HPUX only allows job
control for users whose shell is csh.

    "Advanced Programmer's Guide to UNIX" by Thomas, Rogers and Yates has
a clear explanation of background processes, as well as other basic unix 
concepts.

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