- Miscellaneous -
A '$'-sign in front of a line instructs Xi to treat the line as a shell command.
( 1)>$ls -l -rwxrwxr-x 1 spander scratch 3359947 May 30 13:25 xi* -rwxrwxr-x 1 spander scratch 886913 May 30 13:25 xi3dEPSgraph* -rwxrwxr-x 1 spander scratch 881981 May 30 13:25 xi3dPOVgraph* -rwxrwxr-x 1 spander scratch 1025850 May 30 13:25 xi3dgraph* ( 2)>$date Thu May 30 23:40:10 MET DST 1996
By default Xi uses standard Unix pipes to communicate between serveral tasks. At this moment the Linux version of Xi supports also communication via shared memory pipes. While opening a window enable shared memory pipes with the parameter \shm.
<( 1)>window(0,\shm);