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Storm_Front_66@hotmail.com (The^Storm) writes:
> On Fri, 24 Dec 1999 22:10:02 -0600, "Jennifer \"AstroJenn\" Martino"
> >Stephen K. Gielda wrote in message ...
> >>\"AstroJenn\" Martino" <twpyhr@mindspring.com> says...
> >>> Stephen K. Gielda wrote in message ...
> >>and you can run as many as you want  :)
> >
> >alt+f1 alt+f2 alt+f3... alt+f5 right?

that switches between "virtual consoles". You could also
invoke shells from the command line, like say you're in bash,
you could do:

bash$ ksh
ksh$ ^D
bash$

where I made up the prompts "bash$" and "ksh$" to indicate
that you're in either the bash or korn shell. Whenever you
want to exit from a shell, just type ^D, which is hold
down the control key while pressing 'd'. (^D is a general
"end of file" character, which you could also use with,
say, the 'cat' command to indicate you wanted to stopp
appending text onto a file (like 'cat >> file'))

VCs (virtual consoles) are just different "login sessions". There
are like 6 or 8 getty processes which wait like daemons whenever you
reboot the machine. The are forked off by the init() process,
I believe; init is the parent of all processes, which is
begun by the kernel (look for the source file 'init.c' in
the kernel sources using "find /usr/linux -name init.c",
where "/usr/linux is the base of the kernel sources)

> >> I have about 4 avail that I switch
> >>between.  I like tcsh the best, but ksh is growing on me with the vi
> >>interface.
> >
> >vi is the text editor, right?
> 
> well I prefer pico myself :) 

hehe, only for quick light edits. :)

$ alias pi
pico -ktwxzm -n30

-- 
While the brown ale he quaffed,
Loud then the champion laughed,
And as the wind-gusts waft
The sea-foam brightly,
So the loud laugh of scorn,
Out of those lips unshorn,
From the deep drinking-horn
Blew the foam lightly. --Longfellow