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Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:59:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Tennis Smith <tennis AT cisco DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Detecting Running Apps on Windoze in Cygwin
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On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Tennis Smith wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What I would like to do is very simple (I hope): Determine which Win
> applications are running and, if possible, what the names are in the
> title bars.
>
> How best can that be done? I'd prefer to use TCL.
>
> TIA,
> -Tennis

The Unix way ("ps") will work.  I'm sure you can invoke it from TCL via
exec() (or, if you actually want to process the output, via open()).  See
"ps --help" for the appropriate command-line arguments.  This won't give
you the title bar info, though.
	Igor
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