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From: asente@figaro.UUCP
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Subject: Re: X windows
Message-ID: <281@figaro.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 14:18:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 24 14:18:16 1987
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In article <8702231624.AA04314@paul.UUCP> root%paul.ARPA%uscacsc.UUCP@USC-CSE.USC.EDU (Paul Nahi) writes:
>
>  [how do you create a window that you can use for text I/O?  Xtext only
>   allows text output, not input.]

Look at the Xtty library.  This allows you to start up an xterm in a
subwindow and read and write to it using a procedural interface.  It
is, to be frank, a dirty hack, but it's a useful dirty hack.  Note
that it won't work with the release 4 xterm without the fixes I sent
out to the xpert list last month.  I still have them if anyone
needs them.

If you wanted to write a version of this that doesn't use a slave
xterm, please do.  The world will love you for it.

Note to the Berkeley xterm folks:  did my fix to allow Xtty to work get
installed into the distributed xterm?

	-paul asente
	    asente@cascade.stanford.edu    ...decwrl!labrea!cascade!asente