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From: valante_g@apollo.HP.COM (Glen E Valante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: invoking the dm editor from inside a Bourne shell
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Date: 17 Aug 90 17:16:00 GMT
References: <1990Aug16.231437.28459@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1990Aug16.231437.28459@Neon.Stanford.EDU>,
ammon@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Ammon) writes:
> 
> Is there anyway to get a (Bourne) shell script to bring up a file
> in the dm editor?  Right now I am calling vi, but I would also like
> to be able to bring up the editor you get when pressing the EDIT key.

from the shell, you can execute:

/com/xdmc ce <file_name>

The xdmc will execute a display manager command, and the ce is a create
edit.....

A help on Dm commands will give you some other ideas of things to try, like dr
to specify placement of the window and cv for a read only pad.

thanks,

--glen
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