[REBOL] Re: Console window?
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 27-Apr-2001 8:44
Thanks, Holger!
Holger Kruse wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 07:05:23AM -0500, Joel Neely wrote:
> > Running REBOL/View 1.1.0.4.2 on RedHat Linux 7.1, launching
> > View from term window works fine, but when I click on the
> > "Console" button, the View desktop disappears and no console
> > shows up.
>
> The term window becomes the console. You should NOT start View
> in the background, or your shell might not give View control
> over the term window once you switch to console. If you did
> start View in the background then type "fg" into your term
> window to switch it to the foreground...
>
Duuuuh! That's exactly it... I was firing rebol up with
rebol &
but was expecting rebol to open another window as its console
(in the same fashion that I'd already seen with w2k). Using
fg
did The Right Thing. I've obviously been spending too much time
in w2k and not enough at the coffee pot!
Thanks again!
-jn-
