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- From: mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner)
- Subject: X thing to get string?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.161235.18528@cs.unca.edu>
- Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:12:35 GMT
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- Is there an X program, preferably Motif-oriented (not that I'm that
- picky :^)), that will pop a dialogue box, get a string from the user,
- and print it on the stdout?
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- I need something like this for a program -- I'll open a
- pipe to capture its output -- so I can prompt for a hostname
- to open an xterm window that rlogins to that host.
- (ie pick Window to ... from the session manager, and this pops
- up with a prompt like "Please type in hostname" and it reads that
- and execs a window...)
-
- If I knew anything at all about X programming, I'd write one myself,
- but I don't and figure some hackers here probably already have one.
-
- Scott
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