Program to open a new virtual terminal

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From: John Saunders
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 00:00

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I seem to recall the existance of a program that could run another program
in the background in a new virtual terminal under Linux. I thought the name
of the program was "newvt" or "runvt" but I haven't been able to find
anything by that name. Any suggestions?

Thanks.
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From: johns@rd.scitec.com.au (John Saunders)
Subject: Program to open a new virtual terminal
Date: 1996/12/04
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