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From: toml@ninja.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: more R4 twm problems
Message-ID: <1990Jan8.152737.1522@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 90 15:27:37 GMT
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Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc.
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> I've encountered a problem with twm as well.  In my applications menu,
> I have some fairly long command lines which I want sent to /bin/sh.
> using old twm I could break the lines up by escaping the newline with
> a "\" character.   Now twm hangs  because /bin/sh raises an error when
> it gets two lines instead of one.  So the workaround is to have ugly
> .twmrc files with lines wrapping around.  

You probably want to put two backslashes, twm now goes looking through 
your string and does some character escaping for you.  You now need to
escape your backslash.

Boy I feel sorry for that guy named Tab :-)

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Tom LaStrange

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