Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!bikini!thoth From: thoth@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Gilligan) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Neophyte X user questions (twm) Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 90 18:30:19 GMT References: <12WR8N@cs.swarthmore.edu> <9010191615.AA06992@excess.lcs.mit.edu> <1990Oct26.162421.25749@digibd.com> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Organization: Zik Zak Lines: 15 In-reply-to: rhealey@digibd.com's message of 26 Oct 90 16:24:21 GMT For those of you who want to prompt for arguments within a menu entry you should consider using the "xprompt" program. We have a locally developed version that handles multiple lines much better than the one posted to comp.sources.x a long time ago. If the demand is high enough we will clean it up for release. Otherwise you can get it from uunet in the comp.sources.x archive. "F6" = : root : !"xterm -geom 30x20 -e zwrite `xprompt -rlen 20 -p User` & " "L10" = c|m : root : !"xrshell `xprompt -rlen 20 -p Machine`&" "arbitrary" ("white":"#ff60a0") !"xrshell `xprompt -rlen 20 -p Machine`&" -- "Until it's on my desk, it's vaporware" (`it' is the NeXT)