Interactive Background Processes

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <237 at pigs.UUCP> haugj at 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