Jim Hughes asked:
> How would the STARMSG pipeline detect someone
> typing a message at the console and hitting the ENTER key?
> Would it require another concurrent pipe running?
Concurrent, yes.
For console input, I would simply fan-in a CONSOLE stage.
You can even fan-in TCP connections, if you like. (trickier)
What I typically do is attach the stages from within the gem
(eg: MYTHING REXX). Something like ...
/* REXX */
... other stuff ...
'ADDPIPE (END !) STARMSG | FI: FANINANY | *.INPUT:' ,
'CONSOLE ASYNC | SPEC /CONSOLE / | FI:'
... main body and the peekto/readto loop ...
In this example, STARMSG prefixes each record
with a message type, so I also prefix "CONSOLE "
to each record of terminal input.
-- R; <><
