bug 3192 - Sorry, its bug 3196

[Bernard Devlin]

Sorry,

My eyes must have travelled down to the other bug number I had on the  
screen.

Bernard

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Bernard Devlin <revolution at knowledgeworks.plus.com>
> Date: 29 April 2007 20:24:55 BDT
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: bug 3192 - write to process on OS X
>
> Hi folks,
>
> As Monday is the deadline for people contacting Bill with votes for  
> outstanding bugs, I'd just like to say that if anyone has votes  
> left, then this one is a good candidate.
>
> There are times when the shell() function is simply not adequate in  
> interacting with command-line programs.  Some of these programs  
> e.g. the various isql shells, are interactive, so they need 'write  
> to process' and 'read from process'.  The Rev docs just tell us to  
> use shell() on OS X, but that is simply not enough. There is simply  
> no workaround for this particular bug, so I feel it really should  
> be fixed.
>
> These features work on Windows, but not on OS X.  Here we have a  
> unix with tons of command line programs that we can write lush GUIs  
> for, except we can't have this kind of interaction on OS X without  
> this bug being squashed.
>
> Bernard
>
>