Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihu1m.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihu1m!johnnyr From: johnnyr@ihu1m.UUCP (John R. Rosenberg) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Shell output directed to program (HELP) Message-ID: <426@ihu1m.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-May-85 13:55:25 EDT Article-I.D.: ihu1m.426 Posted: Tue May 14 13:55:25 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 15-May-85 02:15:42 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 15 I am a (very) novice C programmer. I would like to write a simple screen manager using curses to keep a copy of about 5 screens that can be scrolled up and down in order to, in effect, add screen memory to a terminal. I need to know if there is a way to pass strings input to this program to the shell for execution (such as pwd or cd etc.) and have the resulting output from the shell directed back to the program so that it can be addeed to the screen memory. Any help would be appreciated. John Rosenberg ihnp4!ihu1m!johnnyr