H Jesse, Noted with thanks. It is rare for me to use those operations. I just expect to build up more knowledge in this respect only. B.R. Stephen On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 11:22, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 28 August 2003 18:21, Stephen Liu uttered: > > Thanks for your advice. > > > > Could you please advise function of 'first' and 'second' tty > > > > $ ls -x /dev/|grep tty > > showing there are many of them. > > > > Thanks in advise. > > Think of it as multiple desktops for your shell. How often are you in a text > editor, but need to peek at some other file? Sure you can do it by > suspending the current process, and opening a new one, but wouldn't it be > easier to flip to another terminal and look, while keeping the first > application running? They are there to facilitate multitasking. > > -- > Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE > http://geek.j2solutions.net > Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) > > Was I helpful? Let others know: > http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating > To Get Your Own iCareHK.com Email Address? Go To www.iCareHK.com. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list