Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!cfisun!ljg
From: ljg@cfi.COM (ljg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SUN 386i and DOS window question.
Keywords: vt100 login
Message-ID: <256@astro.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 88 21:06:15 GMT
References: <4409@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: ljg@astro.UUCP (Lowell Gray -CFI-)
Organization: Consumer Financial Institute, Waltham, Mass.
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In article <4409@sphinx.uchicago.edu> pgil@sphinx.uchicago.edu (paul  gilna) writes:
>Does anyone with SUN 386i experience know to what extent (if any)
>a user logged on using a VT100 can avail of the DOS side of things.
>Obviously CGA display is out, but can one display purely textual
>output?

You can invoke any dos command that does not require a "DOS Window" (ie.
just gives text output) by giving the command 'dos -w '. The
output goes to stdout and you can use shell redirection or pipes on it. I'm not
sure about input, though...

- Lowell