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

[rahul <ra...@Su...>]

| > 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.

You are right..
I hadn't thought of that. (the process needs direct access to tty which
java will not give)


                                    rahul
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