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From: converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Neophyte X user questions (twm)
Message-ID: <9010291545.AA01870@excess.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 15:45:33 GMT
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> 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. 

twm doesn't provide any mechanism for dynamically specifying flags and 
arguments for commands invoked from menus.  Sorry to cause alarm, I 
misunderstood the question the first time I answered it.


Donna Converse