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Old 01-10-2005, 05:37 AM   #1
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writing gui wrappers for command line tools

say for instance i wanted to write a gui for something like telnet. Would I write to stdin, after calling exec on telnet?

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http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/ipc/

Specifically, look at fork() and pipes.
 
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or, you could use tcl/TK and expect.
which is a combination purpose - built for such things.
 
  


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