frank5@mars.njit.edu (Frank D. Greco CIS Adj. Prof.) (08/17/89)
Is it possible to front end a screen-driven process (e.g., emacs, vi, etc) via pipes? I was attempting to wrap a generic front end around some Unix tools when I came to the realization that things that put the terminal in raw mode wouldn't work too well... I first thought of using pseudo ttys (I'm on a Sun using X Window), but that implies that there will be two pseudo tty's active, one for the terminal emulator (xterm) and one for my program. At first blush, that would seem to be very inefficient (to say the least). I could create another window/pseudo tty but that would be inconsistent for the user. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks all. Frank Please respond by email...