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From: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: using "Your Commands" in filemanager
Keywords: usage
Message-ID: <5687@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Dec 90 13:43:06 GMT
References: <6146@alpha.cam.nist.gov>
Organization: University of Southampton, UK
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In <6146@alpha.cam.nist.gov> coleman@cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672) writes:

>How do you enter a command that needs to have a window
>to display the results. I tried doing the following:

>shelltool ps ax

>unfortuantly, once the command is executed, the window dissapears
>and you can't peruse your output.

>Any ideas?

Yes. I had this problem with xterm (which I use since not all our
machines run openwindows here). It seems easy with shelltool.

shelltool -I ps -ax

This seems to run ps and then continue with the shell waiting for
commands as normal.

>Sean Coleman 
>NIST

>coleman@bldrdoc.gov
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