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From: klee@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Parallel processes to X ?
Keywords: fork, process id, pipe.
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Date: 22 Aug 89 23:25:26 GMT
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In article <140@elctr.UUCP>, hbr@elctr.UUCP (Hans B| Randgaard) writes:
> Are there some way to invoke background processes still using X to
> control everything, but without getting a copy of the widgets ?

Take a look at programs like xmh (in the MIT X distribution).  It uses
widgets for the user interface, but non-X programs for the "real
work".  The widget callback functions just fork/exec the non-X
programs.  This is, of course, very operating system dependent.

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