Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!sarathy
From: sarathy@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Rajiv Sarathy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Creating a window on a remote node
Message-ID: <1989Aug17.083649.3654@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 17 Aug 89 12:36:49 GMT
References: <492@calmasd.Prime.COM> <44ed8514.ce45@apollo.HP.COM>
Reply-To: sarathy@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Rajiv Sarathy)
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In article <44ed8514.ce45@apollo.HP.COM> gaz@apollo.HP.COM (Gary Zaidenweber) writes:
>From article <492@calmasd.Prime.COM>, by sas@calmasd.Prime.COM (Shirley Sloper):
>> 
>> Messages from long ago....
>>> Someone writes:
>>>>From: "ANIMAL::THOMPSON" 
>>>>Subject: Re: Placing a window on another node.
>>>> But. back to the question at hand.
>>>> [Great info on how to creat a pad on another node via send_alarm or
>>>> crp/crpad]
>>>>
>>>>John Thompson
>>>
>>>Either way (send_alarm, crp/crpad, /bin/write, or /bin/wall), you can't
>>>  [blah, blah, blah.....]
>> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Does anyone remember the above discussion? (I'm sorry the references
>> aren't there, this is all I can find.) I had just started reading the
>> group (June?) and I believe the main discussion may have been concerning
>> borrow mode.  I'm not interested in borrow mode,  what I would like is
>> the "great info on how to create a pad on another node...", that the
>> message refers to.  Can someone inform me how to do this?
>> 
>> This is the situation I am dealing with: A process on node A starts a
>> process (CPS) on node B.  I want the node B process to be able to
>> inform node A that it is finishing, (either from a shell script or C
>> module).  Most probably, the originating process on A is no longer
>> running. What I would like to do is create a window back on node A.
>> 
>> Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Shirley A. Sloper                                sas@calmasd.prime.com
>>                       ******    Calma    ****** 
>>                       ** 9805 Scranton Road  ** 
>>                       ** San Diego, CA 92121 **
>
>The following module sort of emulates the system() call, creating
>a window to run the shell. It runs under sr10.1+ (and maybe 10.0
>I just haven't tried and don't expect to). I run in a sysV environment
>but I know this works in Aegis and BSD too. I believe that it will
>not run under sr9.7 without modifications.:
>
>#include 
>#include 
> [long c program]

Why can't you just do this:

    crp "/com/crpad " -on // -me

This will place the contents of  in a read-only window
on //


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