pipe to screen process

[Frank D. Greco CIS Adj. Prof.]

Is it possible to front end a screen-driven process (e.g., emacs, vi, etc)
via pipes?  I was attempting to wrap a generic front end around some
Unix tools when I came to the realization that things that put the
terminal in raw mode wouldn't work too well...  I first thought of using
pseudo ttys (I'm on a Sun using X Window), but that implies that there will
be two pseudo tty's active, one for the terminal emulator (xterm) and one
for my program.  At first blush, that would seem to be very inefficient
(to say the least).  I could create another window/pseudo tty but that
would be inconsistent for the user.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks all.

Frank

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