calling external programs from the X-Frontend?
- Subject: [mg2213] calling external programs from the X-Frontend?
- From: beme at solidmr.kun.nl (Beat Meier)
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 15:54:18 GMT
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- Organization: NMR-Group, Physical Chemistry Lab., University of Nijmegen
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Does anybody know a way to call an external program (e.g a shell script or a C program) directly from the X-frontend (using UNIX OS) without invoking the mathematica kernel and to get the data evaluated (e.g postscript figures) back into the frontend. Beat Meier beme at solidmr.kun.nl