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Subject: Re: Neophyte X user questions (twm)
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Date: 19 Oct 90 16:15:23 GMT
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> Apologies if this is a FAQ, or below the general level of discussion here.

I see so many statements of this sort that I feel compelled to say that
people are welcome to ask questions.  I will make an effort not to post
intimidating and oblique answers.


> I am using TWM and X11R4.  I want to set up a menu that allows me to
> bring up an xdvi window.  However xdvi needs an argument (the dvi file to 
> load) and I don't know how to build my menu so that the argument can be 
> passed to xdvi. 

It is probably not documented very well.  Here's an example:

menu "applications"
{
"Applications"	f.title
"xterm"		!"xterm&"
"xcalc -rpn"	!"xcalc -rpn &"
}