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- From: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
- Subject: Re: TV: Limited display and menu def.
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- References: <07NOV92.14892046.0046@music.mus.polymtl.ca> <27315@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:57:43 GMT
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- In article <27315@oasys.dt.navy.mil> roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Roth) writes:
- >>- When EXECing programs from TP/TV, is there a way to limit the
- >> child process' actual screen area? For instance, define a
- >> window in TV then call a batch file that only writes in the
- >> window defined by TV.
- >
- >Make a TTerminal the interior of a Twindow and use AssignDevice to
- >put the file output into YourTTerminal.
-
- That won't work, because the child processes write to file handle 0, and
- AssignDevice redirects TP text I/O, not DOS I/O. I don't know how to
- do what was asked, but the Object Professional demo unit EXECWSWP.ZIP
- or EXECWIN.ZIP (*not* EXECSWAP.ZIP) does it.
-
- Duncan Murdoch
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