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Re: Simple App. to display text?

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From: Mike O'Connor
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 03:13
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In article <1gres5INNpj4@agate.berkeley.edu> larry@cs.Berkeley.EDU writes:

:|> I'm looking for a simple application that can sit at the end of a
:|> pipeline, collect the output and then popup a window showing the text.
:
:Take a look at the Tcl/Tk system from Berkeley.  I think you can do
:what you want with it without much trouble.

Depends on what you mean by "simple".  You may be interested in xless,
available for anonymous FTP from export.lcs.mit.edu.  It's reasonably
simple from a code standpoint, and sounds like it does what you want.

And it's another Berkeley product!  :)

						...Mike

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