I saw this question in a programming newsgroup, and was wondering if perl could do it.

The question was how to open another xterm, and write to it, instead of the originating xterm. This was in c. The poster finally posted this summary of how to do it in c, but it's beyond me. Can this be done in perl? 

1. in main program:
   openpty() and note the master and slave. I don't care about the
   other params right now.
2. in main program:
    fork()
3. in child:
    execl xterm with -Sxx<slave-fd>
4. in parent:
   write to master fd.
And "magically" data appears on the xterm!

So I guess the question is can you open another pty, and write to it like it was a filehandle?

In reply to opening and writing to another xterm by zentara

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