I am looking for some help with a Perl/Tk script I am writing.

I want to wrap some Tk around a UNIX text based program. The UNIX program takes input from STDIN as a command line and results are returned to STDOUT. (The UNIX program is TCL based and behaves very similiar to `tclsh`)

What I had in mind was to create a TK-Entry box for input, then feed that to the UNIX program. Then the UNIX program would feed its output to a TK-text box.

What would be the perl code to start the UNIX program and send data back and forth to it? Is it a PTTY?

If there are some examples out there, please let me know. I think the Tk would look like this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Tk;
require Tk::NoteBook;

my $mw = MainWindow->new;

$nb = $mw->NoteBook()->pack(-side => 'bottom', -expand => 1, -fill => 
+'both');
$entry = $mw->Entry()->pack(-side => 'bottom', -expand => 1, -fill => 
+'both');

$tab1 = $nb->add('tab1', -label => 'tab1');
$t1 = $tab1->Scrolled("Text")->pack(-expand => 1, -fill => 'both');

MainLoop;

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In reply to Perl/Tk Unix Question by gator456

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