[Gambas-user] allocating a pty in gambas

[Rob]

I'm trying to write an application, one of whose features is a 
terminal emulator window in which an ssh session on a remote 
host will be displayed.  But (as with the Console example), 
there is no way to allocate a pty when you shell a process, so 
many programs (like less, emacs, etc.) won't run or run 
incorrectly.

I'm not asking for terminal emulation support.... we have our own 
terminal type here and I'm implementing that myself.  But unix 
programs work differently depending on whether they're run from 
a terminal or not, and whether or not they're running in a pty 
determines that behavior.

Is there some way I can fake this using clever use of the open 
and shell commands, process objects, etc. or am I gonna have to 
write another perl helper app (which would call the Perl builtin 
IO::Pty class)? ;)

Rob