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From: gaz@apollo.HP.COM (Gary Zaidenweber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Creating a window on a remote node
Message-ID: <4557b873.ce45@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 89 18:31:00 GMT
References: <1989Aug17.083649.3654@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
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From article <1989Aug17.083649.3654@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, by sarathy@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Rajiv Sarathy):
> 
> Why can't you just do this:
> 
>     crp "/com/crpad <name_of_file>" -on //<node_name> -me
> 
> This will place the contents of <name_of_file> in a read-only window
> on //<node_name>
> 
> 
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Of course you can do that if you just wish to show a file. The reason I
posted the "long C program" :-) is that sometimes you wish to actually
run a program in a window, evoked from another program (which may or may
not be running in a window, itself.) I figured I'd supply the useful,
general-case module to do that. 


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