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Date:Mon Jan 26 19:11:29 1994 
Subject:running pop11 %x in a twm menu (The Answer) 
From:"A.Sloman" 
Volume-ID:940208.05 

I previously wrote

> I have not been able to find a way of passing the "%x" flag
> to pop11 in a twm menu definition. Things like
>
> 	xterm -exec pop11 %x &

mea culpa!

Someone asked me why that didn't work and I tried various alternatives
and they didn't work for me either.

What I had not noticed was that he had typed "-exec" instead of "-e"
and I had blindly copied that bit.

As more than one person reported it works for them, because they
use "-e". The silly thing is that "-exec" works as far as running
pop11 is concerned, even though there is nothing in the MAN file
for "xterm" that suggests it should work at all.

Apologies to all.

Aaron