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From: hughes@locusts.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: xterm equivalent
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Date: 7 Dec 90 01:00:49 GMT
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In-Reply-To: hughes@locusts.Berkeley.EDU's message of 6 Dec 90 08:34:49

In article <HUGHES.90Dec6083449@locusts.Berkeley.EDU> I wrote:
>Is there an xterm equivalent application for Windows?  It would
>be able to run generic DOS programs with stdin, stdout, stderr
>all mapped properly, e.g. grep.

I did not make myself clear in this posting.

1) I am looking for a Windows application, not a DOS program that will
run under Windows.  This rules out COMMAND.COM.  (I know how to invoke
command.com and swap it back and forth--that's not what I'm looking
for.)

2) I consider this a programming tool in the same class as make, grep,
and lint, i.e. basic.

3) I don't need the capability to launch Windows applications, nor
ill-behaved DOS programs (esp. direct screen writes).

4) Output would appear in a window with all the other windows, in
a system-standard font.

I'm not yet familiar enough with Windows to know if such a thing could
exist.  Enlightenment?

Eric Hughes
hughes@ocf.berkeley.edu