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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: help - make GNU display-time NOT use a pty
Message-ID: <2385@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 00:11:44 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  8 00:11:44 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Sep-87 00:56:00 EDT
References: <16402@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
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Summary: (let ((process-connection-type nil)) ...)

In article <16402@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) writes:
> Ultrix appears to allow a maximum of 96 ptys, and we are running
> short of them, so I'd like to make display-time use a pipe instead.
> ...  I don't want other kinds of subprocesses (like shell buffers)
> to be forced to use pipes as well.

Easy.  You can wrap the body of the display-time function in a let
statement like:

(let ((process-connection-type nil))
   BODY)

or if you want to leave it up to the users you can put

(let ((process-connection-type nil)) (display-time))

into your .emacs .