[Icon-tech] wrapper for shell programs

[Christopher Moore]

Thanks, Ken.  It would be handy to be able to keep the input in a 
'buffer' which could be scrolled with the up and down buttons.
Chris
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:42:05PM -0400, Ken Perry wrote:
> 
> I will have a look and maybe write up a quick wrapper for this.
> Ken
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws [mailto:icon-tech-bounces at mulcahy.ws] On Behalf Of Christopher Moore
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 12:22 PM
> To: Icon technical discussions.
> Subject: [Icon-tech] wrapper for shell programs
> 
> One of the items which Ken raised on this list was writing wrappers for console programs.  This facility would allow us to port many console-based programs to the Icon / BP.
> 
> I'm attaching a very simple program written in Python which you could run in the console.
> What I'd like to see is some code to run this directly from the Icon without having to log into the console and use the speakup review keys.
> 
> If we had a model of a basic console wrapper, we could apply the techniques to many existing applications.
> 
> Chris
> 
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