Re: Program to open a new virtual terminal

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From: Nick Andrew
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 00:00

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In <583b71$g69@mailhub.scitec.com.au> johns@rd.scitec.com.au (John Saunders) writes:

>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?

Try using ``screen'' if it will do what you need.

Nick.
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