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From: de@comp.lancs.ac.uk (David England)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Parallel processes to X ?
Keywords: fork, process id, pipe.
Message-ID: <296@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Aug 89 16:00:19 GMT
References: <140@elctr.UUCP> <1719@bacchus.dec.com>
Reply-To: de@comp.lancs.ac.uk (David England)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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In article <1719@bacchus.dec.com> klee@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee) writes:
>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".  

Has anyone sucessfully done this on a Sequent using m_fork ?
I've tried, but any X program I link -lpps to falls over.

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