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From: klee@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Shell in an X-Window
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Date: 20 Jun 89 16:44:37 GMT
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In article <18116@paris.ics.uci.edu>, dbainbri@ics.uci.edu (David Bainbridge) writes:
> Is it possible to open a shell in an X-window, or is the only way to accomplish
> this to use xterm. 

Well, if xterm can do it, you can, too.  Of course, xterm is a huge program, so you probably don't want to rewrite it.  A quick and dirty way to include a shell in one of your (sub)windows would be to hack xterm to take a window ID as an argument,