[ale] Cron scripts and ttys

[joe at madewell.com (Joe Steele)]

On Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:23 PM, Michael Hirsch wrote:
>
> Finally, you could do some interesting scripting to catch the message
> from tar, fire up an xmessage window with the prompt, then push a
> response back to tarwhen the xmessage gets responded to.  Again, that
> assumes there is an X display somewhere.

If indeed tar is being used, then tar's --info-script option would be 
ideally suited for implementing the above suggestion.

--Joe