Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!att!chinet!les From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Interactive Background Processes Message-ID: <5953@chinet.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 88 18:14:22 GMT References: <16365@brl-adm.ARPA><237@pigs.UUCP> Reply-To: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell) Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix Lines: 13 In article <237@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes: >>> ... Unfortunately, under Unix, selecting >>> background processing precludes interactivity in the software. > >unfortunately, not all of the modern unix implementations have sxt's and >the shell layer manager. If all you need is to send an occasional command to a running program you can just create a FIFO and connect the input of the program to it. Then just write the commands to the FIFO as needed. Knowing *when* the commands are needed is a different problem... Les Mikesell