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From: roche@cs.rochester.edu (James Roche)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Starting editor from within perl script
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.190641.9221@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 90 19:06:41 GMT
Reply-To: roche@cs.rochester.edu (James Roche)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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I'm trying to write a replacement for Pnews to handle some special
local requirements. I am having trouble getting an editor to start
from within the perl script.

I have tried:
	`/usr/ucb/vi /tmp/postnews$$`;

A ps shows that the editor was started, but it doesn't display anything.
I can type input and it all works, but nothing gets displayed.

What's the trick to starting an interactive program from within a perl
script.
Jim Roche

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Jim Roche
University of Rochester Computer Science Department Rochester, NY 14627
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