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From: "Samuel T. Harris" <sam_harris@hso.link.com>
Subject: Re: simple xterm?
Date: 1999/10/19
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Robert Jordan wrote:
> 
> What would be the easiest method for getting a separate VT100 text
> window to be created for text_io output?  I'd rather avoid using c calls
> (Sun solaris), but if that's the only way to do it, then that's the only
> way.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert

Assuming a UNIX machine, then simpy determine your tty device
and open "/dev/ttyxxxx" as your filename. In this way, I have
redirected the output of several "subsystems" within a program
to multiple pre-existing xterm devices. You can simply prompt
the user for the device names when the program starts.

In the past, I've kept a list of the desired tty devices
in a separate file which is read by the program. This file
has to be updated each time a new set of xterm's are opened.
With a combination of startup shell scripts and
a wrapper script which opens all the needed xterm's this file
can be automatically setup.

-- 
Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer
Raytheon, Scientific and Technical Systems
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"