calling specific terminals in scripts?

[dmartin at ne.arris-i.com (Derek Martin)]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Mike Katz wrote:

> Hello list members
> 
> I have a quick question....  Im using a script to start a aplication in
> gnome.... however Im not realy fond of gnomes default terminal (I cant
> scrole up to see any text in  the terminal).  Is there a way to have a
> script call up a rxvt and then pass the scripts comands off to it?

I don't use rxvt but xterm can do it, and I'd bet rxvt can to. There are a
couple of ways to do it... the easiest is probably to have a second script
run in the xterm, by doing this:

  xterm -e "secondscript.sh"

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Arris Interactive    |  A Nortel Company
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