On 17 Aug 2002 15:52:35 -0600, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote:
> 
> Alas! Mikhael Goikhman spake thus:
> > If your script immediatelly exits after printing the output you should
> > prevent xterm from being closed, something like:
> > 
> >   Exec exec xterm -e sh -c "date; head -1"
> > 
> > where "date" is your script. This waits for Enter to be closed.
> 
> Interesting; I would have done 'read' instead of 'head -1' ;)

head is more portable, read is not available in some shells like tcsh/csh.

Regards,
Mikhael.
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