> So I need at least two windows. How do I open a second xterm for > output, while I use my main one as a readline terminal? Simplest way is to redirect your output to a file then simply "tail" the file in the second xterm. $ man tail > I'm assuming pipes or something like that, Shouldn't be necessary - unless you will be generating huge amounts of output! As I said earlier unix *is* an IDE... Alan g