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From: km@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Ken Mitchum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: /dev/tty equivalent?
Message-ID: <1088@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 24 Mar 88 18:03:11 GMT
References: <619@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu>
Reply-To: km@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Ken Mitchum)
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Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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Keywords: /dev/tty, stdin, system

(Sorry about posting this but our mailer choked on your system.)

In article <619@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu> gary@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu (Gary Levin) writes:
>    Is there an equivalent to `system' under LSC?  Nothing is listed
>    in the LSC manual.  Essentially, I need to be able to suspend the
>    current processes, open an application, and when the application
>    completes, return to my application.  

What you want is called (by Apple) "sublaunching", and is a fairly recent
addition to the system calls. It is documented in Technical Note #126
(I think). Check info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu for the TN.