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From: dzzr@beta.UUCP (Douglas J Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: A question regarding spawning a new process from within GNU
Message-ID: <12463@beta.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 15:39:20 EST
Article-I.D.: beta.12463
Posted: Tue Nov 17 15:39:20 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Nov-87 23:19:18 EST
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
Lines: 42
Keywords: SUN, iconic process


I've been trying to get emacs to spawn off an new process from within GNU, equivalent
to typeing 

emacstool  -Wp  500  67 -Ws 650 824 -WP  864   0 -Wi -WI /u/a5/roberts/icons/rmail.icon&

from a SUN shelltool. I've been able to spawn an emacstool using
the following method:

	(start-process "new" 
			""
			"emacstool"
			"")

However, 

	(start-process "new" 
			""
			"emacstool"
			"-Wp  500  67 -Ws 650 824 -WP  864   0 -Wi -WI
			/u/a5/roberts/icons/rmail.icon&")

produces the identical effect, ignoring the window and icon position
parameters.

In addition, the form

(shell-command "emacstool -Wp  500  67 -Ws 650 824 -WP 864 0 -Wi -WI
/u/a5/roberts/icons/rmail.icon")

starts an emacstool process with an icon, but then dies with a 
 "child of tty died due to signal 6" message.

Anybody have any ideas? The objective is to create an iconic shell
process from within gnu emacs.

Thanks, Doug
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			Doug Roberts
			dzzr@lanl.gov
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