[356] in bug-owl
hypothetical zwriteproc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edwin R. Karat)
Tue Oct 26 18:19:35 2004
Message-Id: <200410262217.i9QMHbc4015049@home-on-the-dome.mit.edu>
To: bug-owl@mit.edu
Reply-To: karat@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:17:37 -0400
From: "Edwin R. Karat" <karat@MIT.EDU>
This is a request for a feature to specify an external program that
would be passed arguments and text that was input as an outgoing
zephyr. This program would be used instead of a call to zwrite
(though an external zwrite program isn't actually called). This would
be useful for using perl scripts that have side effects that
analyze/modify the outgoing text or for calling other variants of zwrite.
From -c help:
"Yeah. Send mail to bug-owl@mit.edu so it ends up some where on the feature list.
Owl doesn't actually call a zwrite program, it's got the zwrite code
built into it, but that doesn't mean we couldn't add a variable to
have it call an external program.
It would also be a generally neat feature to let exec'd programs that
want input from standard in get it from the text window."
