Lou Hevly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This seems weird to me, since all the other daemontools don't need to
> be 'initialized' by hitting a return before giving them input.
You confuse STDIN with command line parameters. These are basic
concepts in Unix and even in MS-DOS from the earliest versions.
> while (<DATA>) {
> my $human_readable = qx!/usr/local/bin/tai64nlocal $_!
> }
> Any suggestions as to how this could be done?
Avoid the external program generally and incorporate the (simple)
conversion into your Perl program.
I you really wan the external program do something like that:
open (DATA, "-| tai64nlocal < $datafile") or die ("...");
while (<DATA>) {
my $human_readable = $_;
...
Frank
