RE: [Expectperl-discuss] help with spawned xterm

[Blackstone, J. D. <jda...@ci...>]

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> From: Debian User [mailto:bk2...@sk...]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 12:25 PM
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> Subject: [Expectperl-discuss] help with spawned xterm
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to spawn an xterm and then send messages to it.
> 
> ....
> ....
> $pid=Expect->spawn("/usr/bin/xterm");
> # now send message to xterm
> print $pid "Hello from parent";
> ....
> 
> I get an xterm window with a shell prompt in it.
> But i don't see my message in it.
> Is there a way to do that ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Pierre Bachelart.
> 
> PS:  I am using Expect-1.15 & Debian Woody

  I think this kind of thing is discussed in the book Exploring Expect by
Don Libes.  It's written for TCL Expect, but the general principles should
be the same.  I never tried it, but I think it involves allocating two
pseudo-terminals and passing some special options to xterm.

jdb