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From: bon@robotics.jpl (Bruce Bon)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.motif
Subject: Running a program in a text window?
Summary: How can I run a program or a shell in an application window?
Keywords: Shell, Unix, text
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Date: 6 Apr 91 01:09:14 GMT
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I am a beginner at X and Motif, so this may be an elementary question,
but I haven't found the answer anywhere.

We are developing an application system based on Wcl.  In order to get up
quickly, we would like to be able to run an existing, text-only interactive
program in a window of the application.  I would like the window to be a
sibling of the other main windows and for the application to control its
mapping -- therefore, it is not desirable to simply run XTerm in parallel
with the main application.  The program in question does not need a full
terminal emulator -- a simple scrolling text window would be fine.
Environment is currently a Sun 3, later to be an SGI workstation.

Can I do this under Wcl, Motif or X?  If so, how?

Thanks.

					Bruce Bon