What does winopen(3G) do?

Trevor Paquette paquette at cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Thu May 31 00:03:18 AEST 1990


In article <May.29.20.11.19.1990.700 at genesis.rutgers.edu>, broderic at genesis.rutgers.edu (Alfred J. Broderick) writes:
> 
> It seems that all programs that use winopen(3G) (including `wsh`)
> run in the background but do not show up in the when you type `jobs`.  
> How does this work?  Is there any way to debug programs that use
> winopen with `edge`?  Whenever I try to use `edge` to debug a program
> that uses winopen, my program runs to completion before edge is able
> to do a "stop at".

    Just before your winopen() statement add the foreground() statement.
 This will fix your 'problem'. 



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