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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Twm hangs doing an xhost (request for help)
Keywords: twm
Message-ID: <9068@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 90 20:01:52 GMT
Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., "The Prototype IS the Product..."
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In article <9751@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> gdykes@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Gene Dykes) writes:
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|When running twm, if I click on a menu entry with the following binding:
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|	f.exec "xhost hostname"
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|twm just hangs, and I have to kill it off (with great difficulty).  Since
|SIGQUIT won't kill it, I can't get a core dump to track down the problem.
|Just executing "xhost hostname" is no problem, and uwm doesn't suffer from
|this difficulty.  Twm seems to run pretty well, otherwise.  Any clues?

haven't tried under R4, but under R2 & R3, you need to throw it
into background with a & .

-Miles O'Neal
{yr fave backbone here}!emory!stiatl!meo