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From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
To: Joshua <Lokken@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: console sessions
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Joshua writes:

>How do I use multiple curses-based apps at once?  for example, 
>cd-console, while editing text, etc.?

1) job control (see the relevant section in man `basename $SHELL`),
2) the "screen" and/or "splitvt" and/or "window" programs,
   (the earlier two are 3rd party via ports),
3) virtual terminals on the (graphics card) console (implemented on
   i386 in freebsd, netbsd and linux), switchable via (ctrl+)alt+Fkey,
4) multiple xterms on X11,
5) all of the above together.

1) and 2) work on any cursor-addressible terminal.

--mkb


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