Re: [SLUG] buffering problem

2002-09-12 Thread Lucas King
t;-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of >Lucas King >Sent: Sunday, 8 September 2002 4:23 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [SLUG] buffering problem > > >hello, > >the following is an excerpt from Exploring Expect by Do

Re: [SLUG] buffering problem

2002-09-07 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Robert Collins wrote: > ptys and buffering are orthogonal. IIRC ptys by default are line > buffered anyway. The original poster was asking about the case when you don't have the source code for what you are driving, if I'm not mistaken. On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 16:37, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: >

Re: [SLUG] buffering problem

2002-09-07 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 16:37, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 16:22:55 +1000 > Lucas King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don does not go on to say how one makes a program think that it is > > "talking" to an interactive interface. > > > > does anyone know how to do this? in C p

Re: [SLUG] buffering problem

2002-09-07 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 16:22:55 +1000 Lucas King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > the following is an excerpt from Exploring Expect by Don Libes: > > "Programs using the standard I/O library provided by UNIX automatically > buffer their output when running non-interactively. This causes

[SLUG] buffering problem

2002-09-07 Thread Lucas King
hello, the following is an excerpt from Exploring Expect by Don Libes: "Programs using the standard I/O library provided by UNIX automatically buffer their output when running non-interactively. This causes problems when you need to see the output immediately." ... it is possible "to make t