Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!rti!mozart!sasjfp
From: sasjfp@unx.sas.com (Jeffrey L. Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: invoking the dm editor from inside a Bourne shell
Message-ID: <1990Aug24.131611.23303@unx.sas.com>
Date: 24 Aug 90 13:16:11 GMT
References: <1990Aug16.231437.28459@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <4c41b6e2.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Lines: 32

In article <4c41b6e2.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> valante_g@APOLLO.HP.COM writes:
>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>

This is nice, but will not work from any foreign windows, ie. xterms.  This
will create an error like this:

?(xdmc)  Error executing DM command "ce" - stream is not a pad (display manager/Pad manager)

One way to get around this (if you use xterms, at least) is to prefix it with
/usr/bin/X11/dmwin.  This creates a DM window so that an 'xdmc' command can be 
executed.  Here is an example:

#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/X11/dmwin /com/sh "xdmc 'ce $1'"

You may have to play with the quotes to get it right, but it works in foreign
windows like xterms.  Enjoy.
-- 
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"Just because I don't know what it means doesn't mean I'm lying." 

     Jeff Phillips             Email: sasjfp@dev.sas.com