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In article <1992Aug22.172708.406@prim> prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave Griffiths) writes:
>
>I think there is an easier way to provide this feature. Rather than the
>command line tool doing the conversion itself, it should simply use the
>Mesa API and send a message to Mesa to say "please save this spreadsheet
>file as ascii text" and then wait for the reply.
>

Sorry, should have engaged my brain a little more before posting that. The
original poster wanted to be able to dial-in to his NeXT and run the
command line tool. That's the tricky part. (If he was logged on through
the Workspace manager the only problem may be having Mesa displaying the
spreadsheets it was converting, although a good design would seperate the
data retreival/storage from the actual display).

My question then: is it possible to launch NeXTStep applications from a getty
(dial up) shell? Like supply a flag to say "don't display the windows for
this app" (a bit like redirecting output to /dev/null). You may say what's
the point?, since the app couldn't receive any mouse/keyboard events. True.
But it _could_ receive messages for it's API.

Dave Griffiths