Re: Need software to view blob.

> > bill, > > less will still involve a shell to run under. It would use an entry in the proces table, yes. > also, using less/more/pg, > dont you still have to get the blob out onto the file system? It doesn't if you're programming in C - just send a stream to it (i.e. popen("less", "w")). I don't know if the equivalent is possible in 4GL or whatever. I saw a mention somewhere about one being able to specify "the program that you use to view a blob", so I assume that 4GL just opens a stream to that program (which would normally be a pager). Perhaps I misunderstood the point of your question... I assumed that you were looking for a program that views text that wouldn't let the *user* fork a subshell, presumably because the user isn't trusted. -- Bill Foote bill@pds.com PDS Corp, Los Angeles, CA USA uunet!promdist!bill