[REBOL] Re: Binary reading from stdin
From: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 18-Feb-2002 12:44
At 22.07 17/02/02, you wrote:
>I'm trying to write a program that reads binary data from fd 0
>(stdin). Is there any way to accomplish that with REBOL?
stdin is system/ports/input. You'll have to do something like:
set-modes system/ports/input [binary: yes]
data: copy system/ports/input
You'll need to set it back to string if you need to get input from
the user later (but it's likely you don't, if you're piping data
from another process).
Regards,
Gabriele.
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Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer
Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r
