Reading from stdin - problems

[K]

That would explain the problem.  I guess means I cannot but a timer on the read.  Any ideas on a way to event program around this?


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 --- On Mon 10/25, Dave Cragg < dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk > wrote:
From: Dave Cragg [mailto: dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk]
To: nnoydb at excite.com, use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:21:19 +0100
Subject: Re: Reading from stdin - problems

<br>On 25 Oct 2004, at 02:14, K wrote:<br><br>><br>><br>> I am attempting to read from stdin with messages.  I have attempted <br>> this with a file and with a pipe (created by a external that executes <br>> a CreateProcess).  When the with messages is present the Revolution <br>> stand-alone program "child" using the following code fails the display <br>> the messages sent to its stdin.  However, if the 'with messages' <br>> portion is left off the command completes without incident.  Any <br>> suggestions?<br>><br>> K.<br>><br>><br>><br>> on mouseUp<br>><br>>   put "-Reading-" & cr into field edtOutput<br>><br>>   local tXml<br>>   read from stdin at start until numToChar( 3 ) with messages<br>>   put it & cr after field edtOutput<br>>   put "EOL" & cr after field edtOutput<br>><br>> end mouseUp<br>><br>As far as I know, there is no "with messages" form of the "read" <br>command.<br><br><br>Dave<br><br>

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