multi tasking

[Dave Hunt <]

There are a couple of ways to do this.

You could use the program called 'screen'.  This is a "window manager"
that lets you use up to 10 virtual terminals on one login.  You can
start it as simply as "screen <program>", where <program> is, for
instance, lynx.  You can switch among your running programs with
"ctrl-a <window-number>".  

Another option (Speakup supports this well), is to login on many of
the "virtual consoles", and switch among them with "alt-f1" through
"alt-f6", unless you've defined more.  Speakup offers a nice
"copy-and-paste" mechanism for working with these many consoles.  

Finally, you could start one job, suspend it with "ctrl-z", start a
second job, suspend that, and so on.  You could then resume all these
in background with "bg %<jobnumber>".  To attach to any job, do "fg
%<jobnumber>".  

-Dave