Alas! Bruce M Beach spake thus:
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote:
Alas! Bruce M Beach spake thus:
+ All Exec xterm ; xterm
doesn't work. Nothing happens. If I remove the last xterm then an
xterm pops up as expected, as in
Didn't we just go through this on another
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
On 17 Aug 2002 19:13:24 +0200, Ulrich Fahrenberg wrote:
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Felix Kater wrote:
I defined a Menu to start an xterm like this:
AddToMenu MenuBackup
+ start backup Exec exec xterm
Along these lines
On 18 Aug 2002 06:20:23 +, Bruce M Beach wrote:
Along these lines how would some one start multiple applications?
Consider:
AddToMenu Tails Tails Title
+ Messages exec xterm -fn 7x13bold -T \
messages -fg white -bg black -j -rw -aw +sf -sl 200 -sb -e \
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
I thought the ';' would work.
Here you should remove exec:
Exec xterm ; xterm ; xterm
The last is optional, but I would leave it for symmetry.
+ All Exec xterm ; xterm
doesn't work. Nothing happens. If I remove the last xterm then
Alas! Bruce M Beach spake thus:
+ All Exec xterm ; xterm
doesn't work. Nothing happens. If I remove the last xterm then an
xterm pops up as expected, as in
Didn't we just go through this on another thread? The syntax you are
looking for is this:
+ All Exec xterm xterm
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On 20 Aug 2002 07:28:58 +, Bruce M Beach wrote:
Yes, and for reasons not understood the original emails appeared
appeared out of nowhere from the list, or I sent them again
without being aware of it.
One of my messages was moderated, because it had 4 recipients listed (good
to
On 09:55 18 Aug 2002, Bruce M Beach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
| Funny, the following is incorrect in bash and ksh:
|% xterm ; xterm
|Yeah. I've seen the above % xterm ; xterm fail a million
|times and never learn because it doesn't make
Alas! Mikhael Goikhman spake thus:
Funny, the following is incorrect in bash and ksh:
% xterm ; xterm
In bash, the syntax you are looking for is simply 'xterm xterm'.
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On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Felix Kater wrote:
I defined a Menu to start an xterm like this:
AddToMenu MenuBackup
+ start backup Exec exec xterm
But how can I add something (after Exec exec xterm) to start a
scipt which shows its output in that xterm?
AddToMenu MenuBackup
+
On 17 Aug 2002 19:13:24 +0200, Ulrich Fahrenberg wrote:
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Felix Kater wrote:
I defined a Menu to start an xterm like this:
AddToMenu MenuBackup
+ start backup Exec exec xterm
But how can I add something (after Exec exec xterm) to start a
scipt which
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
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.
On 22:41 17 Aug 2002, Mikhael Goikhman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| 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
On 18 Aug 2002 09:38:23 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Me too. Doesn't even fork an extra process.
| head is more portable, read is not available in some shells like tcsh/csh.
Speaking as one who predates head I'd had differed on this:-) (Well, at the
least started on systems that
On 18 Aug 2002 07:22:14 +, Bruce M Beach wrote:
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
I thought the ';' would work.
Here you should remove exec:
Exec xterm ; xterm ; xterm
The last is optional, but I would leave it for symmetry.
+ All Exec xterm ; xterm
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
Funny, the following is incorrect in bash and ksh:
% xterm ; xterm
But this is correct in tcsh, zsh, ash and csh. If you put a command
with in parentheses it should work in all shells:
Exec (xterm ); (xterm ); (xterm )
Yeah. I've seen
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