Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>   To rephrase my original question more precisely: How do I spawn a new
> shell, with job control, and have that shell run an external program,
> without replacing the shell?  What do I have to do, run it though 'expect'
> and have that type "pine" for me?  :-)  There has got to be a better way.

I have this feeling that I'm not understanding the whole problem here,
but does this help?:

        xterm -e bash -i -c "pine --"

(or something like this...)

--kevin
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