On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Peter Scott wrote:
> Well you guys are way ahead of me on your line discipline modes, so I
> didn't want to hazard a syntax; just wanted to make my desires known.
I wouldn't say that we are (well, at least me) way ahead. I'm just
throwing ideas out nyself, except that I was
At 10:06 AM 8/20/00 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Peter Scott wrote:
>
> > I read that before I made my posting; it looked to me that :block was
> > specifying a fixed-length read independent of line terminators, i.e., same
> > behavior as $/ = \1024.
>
>Stand-alone, I guess
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Peter Scott wrote:
> I read that before I made my posting; it looked to me that :block was
> specifying a fixed-length read independent of line terminators, i.e., same
> behavior as $/ = \1024.
Stand-alone, I guess it would be. But I would think that combining it
with, sa
At 12:01 AM 8/20/00 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Peter Scott wrote:
> > -io guys, I've been looking through your archives at the line discipline
> > stuff and I don't see this there: what do you think? The proposal is
> for a
> > mode that specifies a maximum number of ch
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Peter Scott wrote:
> -io guys, I've been looking through your archives at the line discipline
> stuff and I don't see this there: what do you think? The proposal is for a
> mode that specifies a maximum number of characters to be returned by a
> getline (<>) so that parano
> "PS" == Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PS> No, the point is not that I want truncated lines but that I want to say
PS> "toss/leave back the excess over 100,000 characters when I do a ,
PS> for I am sure that a line longer than that would be an error of some
PS> kind."
At 06:22 PM 8/19/00 -0700, I wrote:
>No, the point is not that I want truncated lines but that I want to say
>"toss/leave back the excess over 100,000 characters when I do a ,
>for I am sure that a line longer than that would be an error of some kind."
I phrased this badly. I meant to say that
At 08:59 PM 8/19/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Au contraire; sysread reads exactly the number of characters requested;
> >what I want is a way for programs that do all over the place to be
> >protected if someone throws a gargantuan number of characters at FH without
> >a newline. The $/
