Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!P703Hxu1m1uplaQVJzdzug.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: news@zzo38computer.org.invalid Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Reading from %pipe% blocks if the program writes only a few output (example) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 01:12:52 -0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <1642446695.bystand@zzo38computer.org> References: <1641626040.bystand@zzo38computer.org> <1641945002.bystand@zzo38computer.org> <32a0aa56-a58e-467d-86e4-868a901bf563n@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="53661"; posting-host="P703Hxu1m1uplaQVJzdzug.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: bystand/1.3.0pre X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:3721 luser droog wrote: > I may not completely follow what you're ultimately trying to do. But just in > case you haven't heard of it, there's a little known unix tool called expect(1) > that was designed to help with these sort of pipe/flushing issues. It was > written by the same guy that wrote Tcl/tk. That is not related, and does not help. (I am not sure how else to explain.) -- Don't laugh at the moon when it is day time in France.