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NAME

       win - Terminal emulator

SYNOPSIS

       win [-v] [-t name] [command [argument ...]]  address

OPTIONS

       -v     If  the  -v option is present, win prints its version number and
              date and exits.

       -tname If the -t option is present, win uses +name as the final part of
              the tag name of its window.

DESCRIPTION

       win  must  be  able to connect to a running wily(1).  win attaches to a
       window.  If the -t option is present, the final part of the tag name is
       name.   If  command  is  present,  the  final  part  of the tag name is
       +command.  Otherwise, the final part of the  tag  name  is  +win.   The
       first part of the tag name is the current working directory.

       win runs a program in a child process.  The child process is the leader
       of a process group and is connected to win by  a  pseudo-terminal.   If
       command is specified, the child process runs

              $SHELL -c ’command argument ...’
              otherwise it runs

              $SHELL -i
              If SHELL is not found in the environment, /bin/sh is used.

       TERM=win is placed in the environment of the running program.

       Output from the running command appears in the window.  The point after
       the last output from the running command is known as the output  point.
       Further  output from the running command appears just before the output
       point.  The output point is initially at the end of the window.

       Normal wily editing commands work  in  the  window.   When  a  newline,
       interrupt  character,  or  end-of-file  character  is created after the
       output point, the text between the output point and the  last  newline,
       interrupt character, or end-of-file character in the window (inclusive)
       is passed to the running program as input.

       The interrupt character is control-C and the end-of-file  character  is
       control-D.   The  pseudo-terminal initially is configured so that these
       are recognized with their normal meanings.

       The B2 commands beginning with the |, <, or > characters  or  an  upper
       case  letter  are  executed  normally  by  wily.   Other  B2  are first
       terminated with a newline, if  they  are  not  already,  and  are  then
       appended  to the buffer (and thereafter passed to the running program).

RETURNS

       win returns zero if  it  is  able  to  successfully  create  the  child
       process, otherwise it returns non-zero.

EXAMPLES

       Run a terminal emulator within wily

              win

       Run FTP within wily

              win ftp

       Run rlogin within wily

              win -t host.domain rlogin -8 host.domain

SEE ALSO

       wily(1) Tag(1) Man(1)

BUGS

       win  doesn’t follow changes to the terminal attributes.  In particular,
       there is no way to stop  echoing  or  to  change  its  concept  of  the
       interrupt and eof characters.

       rlogin  seems  to  need  -8  and, annoyingly, sets echo and onlcr.  The
       latter can be fixed in your .rcrc:

              if ( ~ $TERM win ) {
                  stty -echo -onlcr
              }

       win doesn’t follow changes to the terminal attributes.  In  particular,
       there  is  no  way  to  stop  echoing  or  to change its concept of the
       interrupt and eof characters.

       WEdestroy messages aren’t yet passed by wily.  Thus, Del and Delcol can
       delete the window yet leave win running.

       There  is  a race condition; the user can press newline and then delete
       text before win has a chance to read it.

AUTHOR

       win was originally written by  Gary  Capell  (gary@cs.su.oz.au).   Alan
       Watson (alan@oldp.nmsu.edu) rewrote it and added support for arguments,
       pseudo-terminals instead of pipes, and execution of certain B2 commands
       by wily.  The pseudo-terminal support in 9term, written by Matty Farrow
       (matty@cs.su.oz.au), was a great help.

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