Screen to the rescue

I couldn't find a BitTorrrent client which can be executed without a terminal (and therefore from within "at") in time for tonight so attaching "screen -d -m btdownloadcurses ..." solved the problem. This starts the command in a detached screen session so on one hand the command thinks it has a terminal while on the other hand I can still start it from inside "at", which doesn't have a terminal. It also has the added benefit of being able to attach back to that screen session later to see how it goes, which is the main advantage of "screen".