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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!demos!kiae!glas!demos!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!mouse
  2. From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
  3. Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
  4. Date: 18 Jul 92 17:09 MDT
  5. Subject: Re: Twm
  6. Sender: Notesfile to Usenet Gateway <notes@glas.apc.org>
  7. Message-ID: <1992Jul18.130934.17668@thunder.m>
  8. References: <1992Jul17.143335.27609@syma.suss>
  9. Nf-ID: #R:1992Jul17.143335.27609@syma.suss:1233664304:1992Jul18.130934.17668@thunder.m:-2001449044:001:489
  10. Nf-From: thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!mouse    Jul 18 17:09:00 1992
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  14. In article <1992Jul16.135236.14295@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, kierant@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Kieran Turner) writes:
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  16. > Just a quick query - anybody know if it would be _possible_ to make a
  17. > patch for twm that could de-iconify on tty output to an xterm?
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  19. It is not.  twm has no opportunity to find out when output to an xterm
  20. occurs.  You'd have to make the patches to xterm, not twm.
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  22. And yes, if you're willing to hack on xterm, it's possible.
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  24.                     der Mouse
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  26.                 mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
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