LOL, sorry, if you read the manual for nice (1), you'll see how to use the command more thoroughly. But basically, you type: nice # CMD Where: # is a number from -20 (highest) to 20 (lowest), which is the priority at which the command runs. CMD is a command string. So you could do something like: nice -20 speech-dispatcher To run speech-dispatcher with the highest priority, or: nice 20tar xf archive.tar.gz To untar archive.tar.gz with the lowest priority. Nice without arguments shows the current niceness (has always been 0 - average for me). HTH, Chris Norman <!-- cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk --> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Hinton" <keithint38@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 12:55 AM Subject: Chriss Normon: set what to a niceness of -20? > What are you talking about? Set what to -20? > Regards-Keith > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
