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Using the Terminal Window

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The terminal window lets you enter HP-UX commands and cut and paste text between and within windows.

Cutting and Pasting Text

You can select text within one window and copy it to another location within that window, or to another terminal window. The original text is unchanged. If you want to delete it, you must do so manually. To cut and paste in terminal windows, see “Cutting and Pasting Text into Windows”.

Note that cutting or pasting in Text Editor uses a different method (see “Editing Text ”).

Starting Applications in a Terminal Window

Enter the command to start the application at the command line prompt.

The general syntax for starting an application is:

   application [options] &
application

The application name.

options

A list of optional information to be passed to the application.

&

Indicates that the application runs in the background; that is, you can continue to use the terminal window while the application is running.

See the documentation for each application to for information on the command and options to use.

Example.  The following example starts a digital clock from the command line:

   xclock -digital &  Enter
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