I've seen similar problems with using background, and choose to use screen instead. That works 100% better. On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi all. Just as an experiment, I attempted to put Lynx in the background > and Freeamp was streaming a radio station that I just happened to be > listening to. I suspended the job and put job 1 in the background, because > I had no other jobs running. It ran fine and I was sitting at the bash > prompt, however when I typed a command, the job got killed. Does anyone > know why this happens? I think that it is very interesting, considering > that a cp and/or erasing job on a Cd for example would run fine after > being suspended and switched to a background process. Could this have to > do that Lynx can't run in the background if it is running an imbedded > application such as Freeamp? Thanks in advance for any info regarding > this! > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >