There are several possibilities to why you don't have a prompt. The
most common reason is that you have a program running which occupies
the shell window.
This might for instance be Netscape&tm; or some other program that
does not usually need a shell window but from which you have started a
command.
Whenever you start a program that opens its own window you should add
a & at the end of the line. This instructs the shell
to put the program in the background, i.e. releases the shell
to do other tasks.
If you already started the program it may not be necessary to restart
it. If your shell have job control you can do the following
to put the program in the background.
- Press ^Z, i.e. hold down the Control key
and press Z at the same time.
This will result in the text
Stopped being printed
and a prompt to appear.
- Type
bg to the prompt and press return.
This will result in the stopped job being put into the
background.
© 1996 Matz Kindahl
<matkin@docs.uu.se>
Last modified: Wed Aug 20 14:53:51 1997