Woah! Perl has a getc() function?!! /me goes to look it up! :) Schwing!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean O'Leary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 24 April 2001 10:16
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: sysread and buffering
>
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> But all that's moot, considering that Perl has getc(), and will use your
> system's if it can find it. But bear in mind, doing this you are
> bypassing
> a lot of Perl's IO niceness, and will have to handle stuff that you don't
> need to handle anyway.
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> Thank you for your time,
>
> Sean.
>
