Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!tdatirv!sarima From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: Questions about the XView notifier Message-ID: <70@tdatirv.UUCP> Date: 27 Jun 91 19:21:30 GMT References: Reply-To: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Organization: Teradata Corp., Irvine Lines: 18 In article fgreco@fis1026.govt.shearson.com (Frank Greco) writes: > There is not a substitute for system(). Oops, I missed that one. I guess I had never had the need to spawn a process anywhere except inside a TTYSW window. > There is a fork-type of pgm in the XVPM, but a lot of app pgmrs need > the shell's help to run a pgm. Hmm, as I think on it, there *must* be something in the library somewhere for this - after all a TTYSW does it! [Still, is using an undocumented interface kosher?] -- --------------- uunet!tdatirv!sarima (Stanley Friesen)