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From: dwiggins@atsun.UUCP (Don Dwiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Fun with forkunix
Message-ID: <8811220233.AA27996@atsun.a-t.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 88 06:13:14 GMT
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Here's what works for me; put the following in user.ps:

{   % Wait for server to be started (this is a hack based on knowing
    %  that init.ps defines ROOTPROC, then removes it as its last action)
    { systemdict /ROOTPROC known not {exit} if pause } loop
    pause pause
    (psterm -f -C -t sun -li 16 -co 80 -sl 128
       -ic -il console -ixy 1050 20) forkunix
    (roundclock) RunDemoProgram
} fork pop

The arguments to psterm are understood by the Grasshopper version.  There
are a couple of minor annnoyances with this:

I have to set the location of the clock by hand, as when invoking it from
a menu.  Does any expert out there know how to specify a location for it
from the PS code?

When invoking NeWS from suntools, defining a console window "breaks" any
console association in an underlying suntools window.  How can I get
that association back without killing and restarting the suntools console
window?

Don Dwiggins
dwiggins@ashtate.uucp