Re: [tcljava-dev] perhaps a silly question,

[Mo D. <mo...@mo...>]

rahul wrote:
> Why is it that I can not open /bin/vi from the jacl eval loop
> while I can do the same from tclsh? What Am I missing?
>
> |java -cp ./jacl.jar:tcljava.jar tcl.lang.Shell
> % vi
> -> does not open vi. (hangs)
>
>
>   
Quite likely this has something to do with TTY support. I would be 
willing to bet that Tcl will exec a process that can take over the 
console while a Java execed process cannot.

Mo DeJong