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From: klee@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Sending a string to another Window using DECWindows
Keywords: X, DECWindows
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Date: 6 Jul 89 00:07:59 GMT
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In article <9228@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, samuels@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mark E Samuels) writes:
> Is it possible in X or Decwindows to send a string to the window of
> another client and have that client read the string as if it had been
> typed from the keyboard? 

Try forking off the non-X program from an X client, then communicate
with it with pipes or sockets.  Most of the public domain X-based mail,
dbx, etc. front ends do this.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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