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Date:Mon Aug 3 16:32:47 1993 
Subject:Re: Prodding Ved from the Outside 
From:Chris Dollin 
Volume-ID:930803.02 

In article ... A.Sloman@uk.ac.bham.cs ("A.Sloman")  writes:

I asked:

   > I'd like to be able to provoke XVed into editing a file ``from the
   > outside'', ie, by running a script or program. [Note that I have
   > an XVed already running, and that's the one I'd like to open up
   > the new window.]
   >
   > How might I go about this?

Aaron replied:

   Here's a quick answer, which I am sure you can refine as needed.

....

   Then use sys_timer to make a program check every N seconds whether the
   file exists, and if so do something with it. E.g. something like this:

The only problem with this is that N would have to be at most 1 sec. 
I'd rather have a technique that could prod Ved on demand. Is there a
spare signal I could use?
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