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From: rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Neophyte X user questions (twm)
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.162421.25749@digibd.com>
Date: 26 Oct 90 16:24:21 GMT
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In article <9010191615.AA06992@excess.lcs.mit.edu> converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU writes:
>> 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 &"
>}

	?????? The person was asking how to SPECIFY the argument at
	"run time" rather than hard coding it into .twmrc. I.e.
	I want to run xdvi on foo.dvi, i.e. xdvi foo.dvi. Later, I
	want to run xdvi on bar.dvi, i.e. xdvi bar.dvi. How do
	I write ONE entry to handle BOTH cases? Can twm be told to
	prompt for operands? Can it snarf operands from a buffer?

	As far as I can tell, twm can't do this. I'm willing to be
	told, and shown, otherwise. B^).

		-Rob