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From: Han The Thanh <thanh@informatics.muni.cz>
Cc: thanh@informatics.muni.cz, ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: launch texexec in a new terminal
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:42:54 +0100 (MET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200102211142.MAA21223@anxur.fi.muni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3elwt10e2.fsf@coe.uga.edu> from Ed L Cashin at "Feb 20, 1 04:59:33 pm"

> The command below will run an xterm in the background; in the xterm
> the shell will launch texexec and then launch "read", which waits for
> you to hit enter so that the xterm doesn't immediately vanish:
> 
>     xterm -e sh -c 'texexec --help; read input' &
> 
> You could create a simple Bourne shell script as a wrapper:
> 
>     #! /bin/sh
>     # x-texexec
>     
>     xterm -e sh -c "texexec $*; read input" &
> 
> ... where "read input" makes the window stay open until you hit
> enter. 

thanks, Ed. This is very helpful.

Thanh


      reply	other threads:[~2001-02-21 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-20 20:01 Han The Thanh
2001-02-20 21:14 ` Berend de Boer
2001-02-21 11:40   ` Han The Thanh
2001-02-21 16:44     ` James Ramsey
2001-02-21 17:13       ` ``Slightly'' off topic: [Was: Re: launch texexec in a new terminal] Marc van Dongen
2001-02-21 17:36         ` Han The Thanh
2001-02-22  7:54           ` Hans Hagen
2001-02-22  4:53         ` Johannes Huesing
2001-02-23 10:54           ` Hans Hagen
2001-02-20 21:59 ` launch texexec in a new terminal Ed L Cashin
2001-02-21 11:42   ` Han The Thanh [this message]

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