Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!princeton!czar.Princeton.EDU!fuchs From: fuchs@czar.Princeton.EDU (Ira Fuchs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Shell interface using IB Message-ID: <8607@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 23 Apr 91 16:09:14 GMT Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Lines: 6 Is there a way using IB and without writing a single line of C code to do the following: Open a window which requests a line of input which when entered is passed to a shell script which uses the input as a named parameter and which sends its stdout to another window? If this is not possible using IB (assuming no C code to be written), is there some other way given tools that currently exist?