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From: Graham Philip Crowe
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 00:00

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Well, you run them from Xterm. just type in the name of the programme and press
enter. eg '/usr/games/rundoom'

If you add a & after then it will return the Xterm session to the prompt whilst
programme is running. eg '/usr/games/rundoom &'


Matthew Croughton (mcc@thepla.net) wrote:
:     I have installed Red Hat 4.2 and it all works perfectly. Yay! But how do
: i run programs in X windows that arn't in the 'start' menu? Also for that
: matter in the text screen? Thanks a lot!

: Matt



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