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- From: Kari.Hurtta@Helsinki.FI (Kari E. Hurtta)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
- Subject: Re: Pipes/Sockets/Pty's/Communications
- Message-ID: <KARI.HURTTA.92Dec30210217@plootu.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:02:17 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.160512.10958@linus.mitre.org>
- Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Lines: 11
- In-Reply-To: bdickens@elara.mitre.org's message of Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16: 05:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.160512.10958@linus.mitre.org> bdickens@elara.mitre.org (Brian Dickens) wrote:
- > I want to be able to send commands to the program and get answers back,
- > but using standard piping techniques have been unable to help me so far,
- > since the output of the program seems to be *buffered*!!!
-
- C'c IO-library line bufferes output, if output goes to terminal,
- otherwise it block bufferes output. This is reason why, you need pty.
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