From dae92b4e203ebed9aab68012861ac757a5192de1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William McBrine Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:45:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] They're not really dragons. --- doc/x11.txt | 14 +++++--------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/x11.txt b/doc/x11.txt index bff44407..16928b5d 100644 --- a/doc/x11.txt +++ b/doc/x11.txt @@ -23,18 +23,14 @@ title of the X window, and for defining X resources specific to your program. -Here be Dragons! ----------------- +Interaction with stdio +---------------------- Be aware that curses programs that expect to have a normal tty underneath them will be very disappointed! Output directed to stdout -after a call to system() (maybe even exec()) will go to the xterm that -invoked the PDCurses application, or to the console if not invoked -directly from an xterm. Similarly, stdin will expect its input from the -same place as stdout. - -This situation is not desirable, but I know of no simple way to get -around this. +will go to the xterm that invoked the PDCurses application, or to the +console if not invoked directly from an xterm. Similarly, stdin will +expect its input from the same place as stdout. X Resources