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From: rowe@cme.nist.gov (Walter Rowe)
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Subject: Re: Strange SUN behaviour.
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Date: 23 Oct 89 13:34:52 GMT
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In-reply-to: yh87@mrcu's message of 18 Oct 89 09:49:55 GMT

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I tried replying directly, but it got sent back to me...
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Here is another possibility for you:

    ioctl (fd, FIONREAD, &nchar)
    int fd;
    int nchar;

The value returned in `nchar' is the number of characters waiting to
be read from file descriptor `fd'.

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Walter Rowe, Sun Sys Admin
Robot Systems Division, NIST
rowe@cme.nist.gov