> what I am trying to accomplish is to make a GUI for an existing
> menu drivin program (which I -cannot- alter the source). Unfortunately ,
> the program (called FOMS) has a series of screens that reuire the user to
> input a LOAD of information in many fields.
I guess what I'd do is a fork() and exec() of FOMS after establishing
the appropriate file descriptors, pipe, etc., and then talking to FOMS
directly from the GUI callbacks. I can't see that adding another
process which simply acts as an intermediary would serve any
particular useful purpose.
spl
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