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From: naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: What is needed in a "shell"-program
Keywords: X shell program
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Date: 11 Jul 90 19:34:29 GMT
References: <1990Jul11.144108.2220@resam.dk>
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I think what you want is the following:

"RESAM"		MENU
	"OpenLook..."	/home0/acct/andrew/X/OpenLook/OpenLook
"RESAM"		END

By using the POSTSCRIPT keyword, you were trying to use NeWS operators
to prepend the default location of the XView tools to the path of the
executable you wanted to run, so xnews was trying to fork:

	${XVIEWHOME}/home0/acct/andrew/X/OpenLook/OpenLook

which is not what you wanted.

-Patrick



In article <1990Jul11.144108.2220@resam.dk>, andrew@resam.dk (Leif
Andrew Rump) writes:
|> We want to use _standard_ OpenLook from Sun as mush as possible - i.e.
|> no reprogramming if the functionallity that is already there may be
|> used even if it requires minor changes of the project. What I want to
|> do is change the .openwin-menu-file so our applications may be started
|> easily. But my applications don't seem to start!
|> 
|> If I write:
|> ...
|> "RESAM"		MENU
|>     "OpenLook..."	POSTSCRIPT XVIEWHOME \
|> 			(/home0/acct/andrew/X/OpenLook/OpenLook) \
|> 			append runprogram
|> "RESAM"		END
|> ...
|> Then nothing happens, but if I write:
|> ...
|> "RESAM"		MENU
|>     "OpenLook..."	POSTSCRIPT XVIEWHOME \
|> 			(/bin/xview/cmdtool \
|> 			/home0/acct/andrew/X/OpenLook/OpenLook) \
|> 			append runprogram
|> "RESAM"		END
|> ...
|> The commandtool window pops up and starts my XView/OpenLook-application.
|> Conclusion: I must be missing something that shell-programs like: sh and
|> csh should do - what? (It's probably very simple I know!)
|> 
|> Leif Andrew Rum

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