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From: bill@fedeva.UUCP (Bill Daniels)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Client needs to block on files & events
Keywords: files, sockets, events
Message-ID: <27@fedeva.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 90 13:28:01 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Federal Express Corp., Memphis, TN
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Caveat:  I am a very green X programmer.

I am working on an application in which the client application needs to
receive input from a file/socket as well as normal events.  In my environment,
which is DECwindows, I have access to a call, XtAppAddInput, that will allow
this to happen.  I cannot of course find this documented in any generic
X document which leads me to believe that it is not a portable construct.
My question is how to accomplish this maneuver in a portable fashion.  I hope
that I am not alone in needing this capability and that someone more versed
in X than I will be able to offer me some guidance.

Thanks
-- 
bill daniels
federal express, memphis, tn
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